Dead links in mailbox doc

[methane]

BPO	38486
Nosy	@warsaw, @bitdancer, @methane, @maxking, @Mariatta, @ZackerySpytz, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs #22239 [3.9] bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239) #22901 [3.8] bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239) #22902 [3.7] bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239) #22903

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title = 'Dead links in mailbox doc'
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[methane]

Reported on mailing list: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/docs@python.org/thread/NIXFQMWFNSNO6RXPINY56CQQ5L7QIRUV/

qmail.org is dead. The mailbox doc [1] contains two links to man pages in qmail.org.
Can we just remove them?

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html

[Mariatta]

Seems like we meant to reference to the maildir specification, which used to be hosted in qmail.com

Since qmail is gone, how about we refer to maildir info here? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

[miss-islington]

New changeset ec388cf by Zackery Spytz in branch 'master':
bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239)
ec388cf

[warsaw]

Thanks for the PR @ZackerySpytz - this has landed in git head and is currently being backported to 3.9 and 3.8 (3.7 is in security-fix only mode).

[miss-islington]

New changeset cd894b1 by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.8':
[3.8] bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239) (GH-22902)
cd894b1

[miss-islington]

New changeset 69479ec by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.9':
[3.9] bpo-38486: Fix dead qmail links in the mailbox docs (GH-22239) (GH-22901)
69479ec