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is procmail abandonware?

2005-06-12 18:41:05
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org wrote:
At 12:35 2005-06-12 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote:
I may have found a bug in procmail (or maybe I'm just misinterpreting
the manpage ;)

There's a known bug with the 3.22 version of procmail where enabling H on a recipe causes all further recipes to act as if H is enabled on them.

Given that this bug was fixed in the -beta version of procmail on Sep 15, 2001, I have to ask: has procmail been abandoned?

I propose someone (possibly me) adopts it and does a
   # mv procmail-beta procmail-3.23
on the ftp site. Fixing known bugs but not releasing an updated version for multiple years is a bit silly.

It might also be worthwhile updating the website. Saying that the 3.22 release is a "NEWSFLASH" is a bit off. Updating the list subscription instructions to something that works would also be nice.

Lest anyone think I'm a troll, I want to point out that I like procmail, and (obviously) use it on production machines. But it's fairly frustrating when you waste a day due to being bitten by a known but that should have been fixed 3.5 years ago. My goal here is to save future admins the same headache.

[Cc: to bug(_at_)procmail(_dot_)org to see if anyone's alive there]

Damian Menscher
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