19.12.2017 7:30, Ted Hatfield wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Matthias Andree wrote: > >> Am 18.12.2017 um 00:17 schrieb Dave Horsfall: >>> Doing my regular update, and... >>> >>> Upgrading procmail from 3.22_9 to 3.22_10... >>> >>> Good grief; who's the masochist who volunteered to support this >>> obscure insecure and hitherto-unsupported scripting language? >>> >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=455800 >> >> I'd agree we should pull the plug on the package. We'll be in for the >> usual "but it works for me" screaming of the irresponsible people who >> don't care (and most of them won't know that they need to write the >> exception/error handling themselves in their .procmailrc recipes). >> >> Sunpoet, can we mark the port as deprecated given that even the upstream >> once said it should best be abolished? I can't find the reference now, >> the procmail.org website displays "Site hosting in transit, information >> will be back up shortly." >> > > Dear Matthias, > > As one of the "irresponsible" people who is still using procmail on our > systems and has built an number of scripts and customer infrastructure around > it I take exception to the term irresponsible. Perhaps the better word is > overworked. If I had the time to move to dovecot/sieve or maildrop as a > local delivery agent I would have done so by now. > > Ted Hatfield
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