Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:06:52 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Ted Hatfield <ted@io-tx.com>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail got updated! Message-ID: <5A389E6C.8040108@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1712181824220.10261@io-tx.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712181012470.92288@aneurin.horsfall.org> <a3a1097d-22c7-89cc-dd69-b4ceeebf7228@gmx.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1712181824220.10261@io-tx.com>
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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 +1
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