Procmail Vulnerabilities check

Chris H portmaster at BSDforge.com
Tue Dec 12 14:43:00 UTC 2017


On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:59:04 +0100 "Guido Falsi" <mad at madpilot.net> said

> On 12/09/2017 01:34, Chris H wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:16:54 +1100 (EST) "Dave Horsfall"
> > <dave at horsfall.org> said
> > 
> >> On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >>
> >> > First, there is movement afoot to remove sendmail from FreeBSD and >
> >> replace it with dma(1).
> >>
> >> There is?  Is there anything else that they're going to spring on us?
> >>
> >> (I'm still annoyed that they removed "jive" because it upset someone's
> >> delicate sensibilities.)
> > Hmm. This does not come as good news to me. I've been working on an
> > antispam
> > system that targets the use of Sendmail, for about a year (not counting the
> > untold hours spent tuning it over the years). Sure, many aren't comfortable
> > with the m4(1) macros. But c'mon. Please don't.
> > As to these backstage removal discussions; is it remotely possible that
> > those of whom continue to use, and contribute to *BSD after all these years
> > might be included in these discussions?
> 
> I just chime in to point out that the discussion is not happening in any
> backstage.
> 
> The proposal was sent to the arch mailing list, which is public. I'm not
> subscribed to it either but I was pointed there by a fellow user.
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-December/018712.html
Indeed, and thank you, Guido.
I'm not subscribed either, and find myself puzzled as to that choice of lists
to make the announcement. But then again, what do I know. I still want to keep
it in base. :-)

--Chris
> 
> -- 
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>




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