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date: 2013/05/29 09:15:11
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slug: nothing-ever-really-goes-away-on-the-internet
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title: 'Nothing Ever Really Goes Away On The Internet: ra-plugins'
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I used to manage a large number of QMail installations. And because Qmail was ... weirdly licensed, I wrote a set of plugins that ran
on top of a patch called Qmail-SPP. I pretty much stopped doing that years ago because life took me in other directions, and forgot
all about it.

That collection is called `ra-plugins <http://ra-plugins.googlecode.com>`_ and I had not touched it since late 2008.

And today... I got `a patch with two whole plugins to add to it <https://code.google.com/p/ra-plugins/issues/detail?id=3>`_ so that
it makes Qmail handle email addresses more like Gmail does (aliases using user+foo and making user.foo the same as userfoo).

So, I got them, added them, fixed a few simple building issues, updated the libsmtp it uses internally for one of the plugins to a
later version, and there it stays, perhaps not to be touched until 2018.