Re: procmail question

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:08:44AM -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained
(https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/).

Quote from the page above - seems to be old and, to put it mildly,
wrong:
"procmail is unmaintained. The "Final release", according to
Wikipedia, dates back to September 10, 2001 (3.22)"

Status today according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail
Excerpt:
"The software remained unmaintained for several years, and was
believed to be defunct.[3] In 2020 May, Stephen van den Berg resumed
maintenance again.[4] The program has since seen multiple releases and
bug-fixes."

Here seems to be the current maintainer site:
https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail
And see the HISTORY file in that dir ...

And even the Openbsd guys, with their interest in "proactive
security", have it in their latest release:
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/packages/amd64/

Welcome! ... ;)
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Wolfgang
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