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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:36:41 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Cc:        "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check
Message-ID:  <31516A0C-250D-4A1E-BB66-AD2BC73384A1@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <20171126132532.f27hlvtnyjnkq7rr@ozzmosis.com>
References:  <nycvar.OFS.7.76.1711250853410.73766@eboyr.pbz> <20171126032013.GA46813@neutralgood.org> <20171126132532.f27hlvtnyjnkq7rr@ozzmosis.com>

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> On 26 Nov, 2017, at 6:25, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Sat 2017-11-25 22:20:13 UTC-0500, Kevin P. Neal =
(kpn@neutralgood.org) wrote:
>=20
>> Is that the consensus to replace use of procmail with maildrop?
>>=20
>> A little googling makes it look like maildrop has the easy =
integration
>> with sendmail just like procmail. But is maildrop going to be around =
for
>> the next, oh, 20 years like procmail was?
>=20
> maildrop began circa 1999 and is part of the Courier Mail Server
> software. procmail began circa 1990. Arguably both are due for a
> modern replacement, although at least maildrop does not suffer from
> vulnerabilities, afaik.

Sieve (ex. dovecot-pigeonhole) is the modern replacement.

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org




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