Procmail got updated!

Chris H portmaster at BSDforge.com
Mon Dec 18 21:10:50 UTC 2017


On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:09:30 +0100 "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de> said

> 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."
FWIW procmail.org has shown that banner since 2015-11 (november, 2015).
A safe bet, that they won't be changing that anytime soon. :-)

--Chris
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