On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:11:02 +0200 Matthias Andree <mand...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Am 31.08.2011 07:43, schrieb Ade Lovett: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:06:15 +0200 > > 1. In the context of a FreeBSD port, there is absolutely nothing > > wrong with mail/procmail as it stands. That is to say, it compiles > > and runs on all supported OS releases and architectures. > > Which is insufficient in the light of known design flaws and bugs. Hardly. Unless, of course you have empirical proof that mail/procmail is the only such port that suffers from bugs. > > 3. Particularly when there's no magic tool to convert all > > the .procmailrc's out there to mail/whizzy-new-thing. > > Cleaning up every 7 years or so is a good idea actually. Jolly good. I'll go nuke autoconf-2.13 (January 1999) and automake-1.4 (July 2002). We'll ignore the emacs, xemacs, thunderbird users when their stuff doesn't build any more. > > #3 is the important point. If you do want to send mail/procmail to > > the great bitbucket in the sky, then please provide that magic > > tool. I'm sure lots of folks will be willing to test it for you. > > OK. I've asked that on the courier-maildrop list. Remember, it has to be a complete drop-in replacement. MTA agnostic, handle all the various command line arguments, and be totally backwards compatible. Seriously. Find something more useful to do. -aDe _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"