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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:16:51 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: "Ariadne Conill" <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Procmail removal
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:45:43 +0000
"Ariadne Conill" <ariadne@dereferenced.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to remove Procmail from Alpine.  It is not maintained
> upstream and FTBFS on at least mips64.  I have disabled procmail on
> mips64 as I do not believe it is worth fixing.
> 
> Procmail's upstream maintainer states that Procmail has numerous
> security defects and should be removed.  OpenBSD has removed it
> already based on the security concerns.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds like a good idea to nuke it.

Thanks!

-nc

> 
> Ariadne