Re: [Fetchmail-users] delay interval

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

Am 06.01.2017 um 00:15 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Thursday 05 January 2017 16:56:11 Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> Procmail is offtopic here, and you don't say what distribution you are
>> using, but surely it has a help forum or mail list. I use openSUSE,
>> you can find me there and I'll be happy to try to help. Otherwise,
>> mail me directly, and time permitting, I'll try to help.
> Pray tell me why procmail is off-topic here?  It's been doing an 
> excellent job here as the mta for fetchmail for about 15 years.

Gene,

a happy new year. The good news is that procmail is dead (good
riddance), and isn’t a part of fetchmail. Procmail got deorbited by its
authors, after more than a decade of being abandonware.
It’s always been next to impossible to configure in a way to NOT goof up
in adverse conditions (such as full disks, loaded systems, thereabouts).

The old news is that procmail configuration isn’t subject of this list.
Procmail used to have its own lists, and while questions of “how do I
execute procmail from fetchmail’s --mda option” are on topic here, the
actual procmail configuration is not.

> Before you go touting a new mta, you should make sure it is in all the 
> big name repositories, but its not in debian for wheezy. The only 
> competition is getmail, which is a competitor of fetchmail itself.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/maildrop looks plausible for Debian, and
maildrop has been more mature and usable than procmail ever was.