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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 17.10.2014 um 22:41 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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

Eat more dung, millions of flies cannot all be wrong.

It is not as if the majority of these "millions" of systems made a
deliberate decision, it just shipped with many of those by default (some
even as a required component of the base install), before we had better
alternatives.

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

Meaning upstream is dead, no-one bothers to fork/revive it, and the
distro version bug sets fall asunder.

The list archive no longer exists, several links on procmail.org go to
domains that are no longer, and procmail never added clear comments on
error handling to its manual pages, you'd have to grab those from
someone else.

If you just go by procmailex you'll find that you missed error handling
once the disk fills up or goes read-only or similar.  If that's a
temporary condition, you'll see mail delivery gets erratic.

Fixing that is possible, but it at least doubles the number of your
.procmailrc recipes and clutters the file.