Many past tenses

[jimoso]

I looked at hMailServer in 2021 and set it up as a standby, with a view to revisiting it again. I returned to it today to finally implement it and in the search, I was astonished to how Wikipedia refers to it...

"hMailServer was a free email server for Windows created by Martin Knafve. It ran as a Windows service and includes [sic] administration tools for management and backup. It had support for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email protocols. It could use external database engines such as MySQL, MS SQL or PostgreSQL, or an internal MS SQL Compact Edition engine to store configuration and index data. The actual email messages were stored on disk in a raw MIME format."

I've never been a fan of Wikipedia anyway, but the laughable text reads as if someone has attempted to bury hMailServer and not done a great job of it.

I thought at first that it was no longer available. I was pleased to see that is not the case and hMailServer appears to be alive and well. It raises the question, why the article would have been amended in such a way. In the writer's enthusiasm for erasing the present, he or she seems to have got the tenses mixed up and overlooked... "includes administration tools".

Wikipedia appears to have no established guidelines as to whether something still exists — we can take the example of at a past car model, no different from a past item of software, yet the car models suggest throughout... "The Ford Cortina is a medium-sized family car manufactured and marketed initially by Ford of Britain, and then Ford of Europe in various body styles from 1962 to 1982". A strange inconsistency.

[RvdH]

I've never been a fan of Wikipedia anyway, but the laughable text reads as if someone has attempted to bury hMailServer and not done a great job of it.

Probably written by someone not happy with the 'customer' service by the looks of it

[SorenR]

I had a Ford Consol Cortina Mk.1. for a few years back in the day when I worked at Brüel & Kjær - before doing my BSc.EE. Like anything Brittish on Wheels it succumbed to "the Brown Virus" ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDBw6oYRvyM

[mattg]

I was astonished to how Wikipedia refers to it...

Honestly, that's proably fair

https://www.hmailserver.com/state

[RvdH]

I was astonished to how Wikipedia refers to it...

Honestly, that's proably fair

https://www.hmailserver.com/state

Not really, it still IS a mailserver for Windows, etc etc
OK development has halted, but it ain't buried yet

Sounds edited by a frustrated little prick....mmm, now i think of it i have my suspicion of who that could have been