Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:09:36 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check Message-ID: <49EE56FC-EDAA-43B1-AA01-A5445DD99155@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <20171213172720.GA2016@esprimo.local> References: <fb3d23c5-e32d-452a-a0c3-c3cb12340054@cloudzeeland.nl> <a66d1c33-e405-d9e8-d9c3-2738b5e66887@cloudzeeland.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712080956580.41281@wonkity.com> <230a4255-839b-0ff8-9730-c86425ab3d5d@cloudzeeland.nl> <20171213172720.GA2016@esprimo.local>
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> On Dec 13, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Christoph Brinkhaus = <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> wrote: >=20 > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:35:55AM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >> On 8-12-2017 17:58, Warren Block wrote: >>> procmail is ancient, and has had known quality issues for much of = the=20 >>> time. Consider maildrop as a more powerful and more maintained=20 >>> replacement that is pretty easy to implement: >> I know - but I can remember that procmail should be installed also = when=20 >> using Postfix. >> Might be wrong here... >=20 > Dear Joe, >=20 > I have replaced procmail by maildrop recently using it with Postfix. > There has been just one single obstacle. I run fetchmail as suer > fetchmail started with the entry in /etc/rc.conf. The mails have been > delivered to Postfix which involked procmail to distribute the mail. >=20 > With maildrop this did not work initially. Adding the user fetchmail > to /etc/aliases with a proper alias address followed by the command > newaliases fixed that. I like such replacements. However, if third party code is required, there is little we can do in = the short term. Case in point: security/logcheck. I went upstream looking to see why Debian uses that. I cannot recall exactly what it was, but it wasn't procmail, but another = utility provide by procmail. I stopped there. --=20 Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon dan@langille.org
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