Procmail got updated!

[Ted Hatfield]

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