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Author: Jim Jackson
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] mailing list software



On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Lars Nood??n via Dng (dng@???):
>
> > It's probably a time that Procmail be retired, and thus anything based
> > on it. There have been a lot of reports in recent years of serious,
> > unsafe bugs in its processing. However, there is this comment about it
> > from a former Procmail maintainer to consider:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141634350915839&w=2
>
> Upon examination, it turns out that the known flaws in Procmail lack any
> credible exploitation scenario. The matter was covered on LWN.net a few
> years ago, and I'm pretty sure nothing has changed substantively.
>
> (I've gone through this discussion several times since then on mailing
> lists, and can dredge up details from those if necessary.)


Just an aside - what are the alternatives to procmail?
so far I've only found _maildrop_ as an in-line delivery filter.

Jim