Procmail Vulnerabilities check

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Sun Nov 26 14:36:51 UTC 2017


> On 26 Nov, 2017, at 6:25, andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat 2017-11-25 22:20:13 UTC-0500, Kevin P. Neal (kpn at neutralgood.org) wrote:
> 
>> Is that the consensus to replace use of procmail with maildrop?
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> 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


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