Procmail Vulnerabilities check

Thomas Mueller mueller6722 at twc.com
Mon Dec 11 03:33:34 UTC 2017


from Carmel NY:

> On Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:18 PM, RW wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:10:30 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Strongly agree! Support ofr some basics like .forward is really a
> > > requirement. It is used for too many "normal" mail operations
> > > including private dropmail or procmail setups as well as forwarding to
> > > a smartmail system.

> > This is actually an argument for taking sendmail out of the base system.
> > If you need to install dropmail or procmail as a package you might just as well
> > install an MTA in the same way.

> IMHO, I think that "postfix" should be the base MTA. It is far easier to configure, it is rock solid
> and the Postfix forum and documentation are superb. Plus, Dovecot integrates with it seamlessly.

NetBSD did that some time ago (made postfix the default MTA).

If sendmail is dropped from FreeBSD base, FreeBSD users who want sendmail can install from ports and get the real thing instead of a reduced version.

Yes, my /etc/src.conf includes the line

WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes

Tom



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