gomail library unmaintained

[fnetX]

The gomail library used by Gitea is out of date. Transfer from me from the channel (Matrix)

Gitea seems to use https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail which is unmaintained since 2016, and the "actively maintained" fork appears unmaintained, too: https://github.com/go-mail/mail/
Do you consider this an issue for you? I looked at some Gitea issues, and some cases like different timeouts / retries is also a feature request to both frameworks, but apparently never implemented. Does a switch make sense, or is the current state perfectly fine?

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Discussion already started here:

FYI

• This seems to be unmaintained, here is an alternative go-gomail/gomail#163
• Its has been 4 years, no activity. Is it still reliable (number of starts vs 4 years no activity) go-gomail/gomail#150

Maybe we should maintain gomail by ourselves, or switch to another one. Then we may not need hacky code.

Some active forks:

• https://github.com/Shopify/gomail (Shopify is a big company)
• https://github.com/DeedleFake/gomail (new)

Originally posted by @wxiaoguang in #18075 (comment)

[wxiaoguang]

FYI, there were more comments.

1. These active forks seem not ideal. Add option to convert CRLF to LF line endings for sendmail #18075 (comment)
2. IIRC many contributors accepted to maintain the gomail by ourselves since it's not complex.

[lunny]

How about convert to https://github.com/xhit/go-simple-mail .

[fredmenez]

FYI the maintainer of go-gomail/gomail has left this world, details in go-gomail/gomail#182.

[techknowlogick]

@fredmenez thank you for sharing this news with us ❤️ 🕯️