Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:50:05 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile Message-ID: <20110831215005.00843ec9@lab.lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5E6B26.4040007@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108301524.p7UFOc6Q008169@fire.js.berklix.net> <4E5D0A77.3070304@FreeBSD.org> <20110831004337.2deb368e@lab.lovett.com> <4E5E6B26.4040007@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:11:02 +0200 Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Am 31.08.2011 07:43, schrieb Ade Lovett: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:06:15 +0200 > > 1. In the context of a FreeBSD port, there is absolutely nothing > > wrong with mail/procmail as it stands. That is to say, it compiles > > and runs on all supported OS releases and architectures. > > Which is insufficient in the light of known design flaws and bugs. Hardly. Unless, of course you have empirical proof that mail/procmail is the only such port that suffers from bugs. > > 3. Particularly when there's no magic tool to convert all > > the .procmailrc's out there to mail/whizzy-new-thing. > > Cleaning up every 7 years or so is a good idea actually. Jolly good. I'll go nuke autoconf-2.13 (January 1999) and automake-1.4 (July 2002). We'll ignore the emacs, xemacs, thunderbird users when their stuff doesn't build any more. > > #3 is the important point. If you do want to send mail/procmail to > > the great bitbucket in the sky, then please provide that magic > > tool. I'm sure lots of folks will be willing to test it for you. > > OK. I've asked that on the courier-maildrop list. Remember, it has to be a complete drop-in replacement. MTA agnostic, handle all the various command line arguments, and be totally backwards compatible. Seriously. Find something more useful to do. -aDe
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