[schmonz]

Yep, after reading the post I'm not any less impressed by (or interested in) Rust. If the post's claim were "Wait until Rust changes more slowly before investing more heavily in it," I might be able to agree.

For a project like notqmail, I would worry about portability. qmail runs on a lot of platforms and getting Rust bootstrapped is a bear.

[cryptonector]

For any new MTA/MSA you don't need to run on old HP-UX systems. You can elect to only run on systems that support Rust, which is to say: all the modern OSes.

[schmonz]

You wanna write a new MTA from scratch? Me neither :-p

[cryptonector]

Eh, maybe. With Rust it's plausible to rebuild piece by piece.