Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 12:51:56 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Jos Chrispijn <bsdports@cloudzeeland.nl>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check Message-ID: <20171208205156.GA98218@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712081111070.41281@wonkity.com> References: <fb3d23c5-e32d-452a-a0c3-c3cb12340054@cloudzeeland.nl> <a66d1c33-e405-d9e8-d9c3-2738b5e66887@cloudzeeland.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712080956580.41281@wonkity.com> <20171208180905.GA96560@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712081111070.41281@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 11:19:03AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:58:55AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >> > >> procmail is ancient, and has had known quality issues for much of the > >> time. Consider maildrop as a more powerful and more maintained > >> replacement that is pretty easy to implement: > >> > >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html > > > > Warren, > > > > Thanks for the pointer to another of your excellent short tutorials. > > > > I note that you discuss sendmail's /etc/mail/hostname.mc > > file and how to reset local_procmail. First, there is > > movement afoot to remove sendmail from FreeBSD and replace > > it with dma(1). Second, a number of people probably do as > > I do, and invoke procmail from a .forward file. > > > > % cat ~/.forward > > "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-" > > > > Do you know if maildrop can be used in a similar way? I > > suppose I have some reading to do. > > I have not used a .forward file in a long time, but certainly it can be > done... found this in http://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html: > > /home/you/.forward: > "|/path/to/maildrop -d ${USER}" > > > My impression of maildrop is that it has a superset of procmail's > abilities, but with easier syntax and easier but more powerful PCRE > regexes. Thanks. I'll start to migrate away from procmail, which incidentally filed your reply in my aaaa-junkfilter folder. :-) -- Steve
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