Re: Is there anyone using procmail?

"Ken Moffat" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:51:14PM -0500, William Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 19:49:46 -0500
> "\"Douglas R. Reno\"" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Good evening,
> > 
> > 
> > While I've been working on GCC 15 fixes, I have been struggling with 
> > procmail a bit. For now the temporary workaround I will put into place 
> > is to tell CC to use -std=gnu17, which is similar to what Fedora is 
> > doing. However, I want to consider dropping this package if it's not 
> > properly resolved before the release of BLFS 12.4. The package has not 
> > had any commits made in 3 years.
> > 
> > What does everyone think?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > - Doug
> > 
> 
> Hello Doug,
> 
> I've used procmail for a couple decades.
> 
> Was curious what we'd use as an MDA if removing procmail, there is fdm.
> 
> Arch, and maybe other distros will maintain procmail patches.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> William Harrington

If I was still building and maintaining systems  I would be using
procmail.  Looking at fedora, in January 2023 they switched to a
github fork.  In January 2024 they patched that for gcc-14.

https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail
although the gcc-14 patch hasn't gone upstream and there might be an
issue with gcc-15:
 https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail/issues/10

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