q: development status of procmail
Peter Jakobi
jakobi at acm.org
Sat Sep 5 15:23:42 UTC 2009
Hi,
I'd like to know the current development status of procmail, as I
hadn't much luck in reporting a regex bug recently. Is there still a
live upstream or is the historic procmail.org all that remains?
Thanx for an update on this issue,
Peter
FIY: Background:
With a the perceived lack of development and maintenance I'm also a
quite a bit concerned about say UTF8, which was way less of a topic in
era 2001, but is increasing and matching against encoded header
strings in utf8 might become more than just nice-to-have.
(And NO: restriciting matching in classic procmail recipe fashion to
ascii is increasingly insufficient: e.g. allow for just a measly half
a dirty dozen of umlauts. Quoted is bad enough, but the mailer might
choose to encode the entire header. The only thing that's worse is
chars above 0x80 in headers and body and no sender-provided indication
at all for either latin or UTF8.... And umlauts nicely differ in utf8
vs latin; and there's enough Asian full UTF8 spam around to _not_ add
recipes trying to outguess bad senders in order to auto-decode UTF8)
--
cu
Peter
jakobi at acm.org
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