-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2010-11-17 at 12:10 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:28:24 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
I don't know what is wrong with procmail, I have no idea, but that the fetchmail folks strongly recomend not to use it,
Which is very funny, if you look at the past and current fetchmail developers and the code and the "funny" design decisions they have made.
Just look at both project's security track record...
Well, I have no idea, so that's why I ask :-) I looked at their home web site. Found a link for "search mail archive" -> dead link. There is a link to subscribe, but I'd prefer to have a look at the archive first. Perhaps their mail list has some activity, but a home site with dead links doesn't look good.
because it has been abandoned 10 years ago.
I'd say it was finished 10 years ago. With no need to update because it is feature complete and apparently pretty bugfree.
That can be so, but the home site mentions a stable version and a development version, so they intended to do something more. If they left it as "stable", the proper thing would be to say so in the home page, and if leaving the project, say so and invite others to take over. There is no mention... it was just abandoned. Maybe they died, for all I (we) know.
It seems that even the last five years of compiler improvements in detecting overflows and such did not uncover flaws in procmail, which I personally think is pretty impressive.
It is. But not having looked at our src rpm I do not know if perhaps the mantainer here has done some patching. That's why I asked here in factory, he (whoever he is, I dunno) should know.
I "love" procmail. It serves me perfectly. But it is scary that it has no devs at all! Is somebody at openSUSE patching it if needed? Are there any plans for a substitute?
What feature are you missing? What patch do you miss?
None.
"Oh my god, nobody has improved the shape of the wheel since 100 years. Let's abandon all wheels immediately, they cannot possibly work anymore!!!"
It is not that. Even if I don't have to ever repair the wheels of my car, I want to know that if go to the garage there will be a mechanic. Or that if a flaw appears that affect my vehicle, there will be a recall notice or repair notice. I want somebody in charge that says "no news", like the guard on duty: best news is no news. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzjyRcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UOKQCfQCB+8XZC/Ygo94+MsU7zWb0Y 6EwAnjdtkr7J4C7ichoCkxeiKthB0NGC =eSPT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org