Maurice, Marcus, Steve
> Most use fdm from ports > Best Thanks for the tips on fdm. I shall take a look! Marcus: > Regarding procmail beware of this: > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=151256201621939 Fascinating. Never caught that discussion before. I gather a specially crafted message could get control of the user's account, or at least it would hard to prove that it couldn't. I guess I can appreciate further, that since the mail system processes the .forward file, that means a task with higher privileges than even the user, has to deal with external world possibly garbage or infected input, which could be unfriendly, and if the code base was designed without even such a thought, and is unwieldy -- there was the incentive to do better. Oh, but the years of fine tuning the procmail scripts.... > formail is not in the ports tree, afaict. I probably just should have said only the package for procmail; formail comes with it. formail goes into the .forward file, and regularizes any problems with the "From" email address, before handing off to procmail. I guess that's somewhat a security enhancement. Perhaps not enough. Maybe formail isn't always used or was dropped in later version. I see a comment from Steve (clipped below) that he doesn't use it. [Haven't yet checked out his reference or absorbed it's implications yet. May comment further, if I further retry procmail first, before learning fdm.] > I use ~/Maildir > Marcus In your case, is that ~/Maildir (a file), or is it ~/Maildir/ a directory? In my new install, not doing any mail sorting yet, Simple "Mail" seems to put new mail into ~/mbox (the file) if not handled explicitly other than looking at the subject lines -- even though it says (at run time) something about putting it back into the user's mailbox -- which is different wording from the documentation, and slightly confusing. Alpine (not further configured) moves all new mail from /var/mail/*user*/ to ~/mbox (the file), soon as it is invoked. Anyway those are clearly moot details for most folks now. Thanks again, for the comments all! Austin On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > Most use fdm from ports > Best On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > aus...@computershop.ca (Austin Hook), 2021.01.26 (Tue) 18:43 (CET): > > Wonder if anyone is still using Procmail/Formail under 6.8 for > > presorting incoming mail before it hits one's main inbox. > > Regarding procmail beware of this: > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=151256201621939 > > formail is not in the ports tree, afaict. > > I switched from procmail to fdm: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Information for inst:fdm-2.0p0 > > Comment: > fetch, filter and deliver mail > > Description: > fdm is a simple, lightweight replacement for mail fetch, filter and > delivery programs such as fetchmail and procmail. It can fetch using > POP3 or IMAP (with SSL) or from stdin, and deliver to a pipe, file, > maildir, mbox or SMTP server, based on regexps. > > Maintainer: Nicholas Marriott <n...@openbsd.org> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > Also wondering if folks send the remainimg mail, after filtering, to > > /var/mail/*user*, or to ~/mbox or to ~mail/mbox. Any advantage to be had, > > or any mere consensus, regardless of advantages? > > I use ~/Maildir > > Marcus > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:04:43 -0700 From: Steve Williams <st...@williamsitconsulting.com> To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 6.8 and Procmail/Formail: anyone still using them? Hi, I am using procmail under 6.8 successfully.? I did have problems with it when upgrading to (I think) 6.4. If you look for the mail list archives for "OpenBSD 6.4 smtpd local mail delivery missing "From " when .forward (procmail)" My .procmailrc: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f -" Not sure if this is your problem or not.? But I have quite a large .procmailrc file (200 lines) that makes? a historical archive of every incoming email, filtering maillist emails, etc. Thanks, Steve W.
