Re: [Fetchmail-users] Problem using fetchmail with a user

[Carlos E. R. <car...@op...>]

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On 2014-10-17 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2014 03:55:32 Matthias Andree did opine And
> Gene did reply:

>> Note that I advise against using procmail.  It has been
>> unmaintained for more than a decade and has design flaws that
>> cause apparent mail "loss" (which are not loss but in fact a
>> fallback behaviour that causes procmail to _misfile_ mail in
>> error situations, and - albeit possible - are hard to overcome by
>> procmail recipes).
>> 
> Humm, since I have been using procmail for about a decade now, and
> am aware of its unsupported status simply because there have been
> no updates in several years, and it hasn't made any mistakes that I
> have become aware of, what do you suggest as its most painfree
> replacement?

It simply has not needed updates. I would not call it "unmaintained",
but "mature". Millions of systems use it.

In the changelog of my distribution, I see its recent maintenance
updates, some coming from other distributions.

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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