Procmail got updated!

[Eugene Grosbein]

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