maillog problem about domain name

[fvgit]

Congratulazioni!

[fvgit]

Originally Posted by ip6ix

Indeed, this is what I do, except I use fetchmail (which I was familiar with from using it on Linux). I also use "procmail", which neatly parses the mail headers and sorts the incoming mail into different mailboxes ready to read with mutt.

Procmail(1) can be set up from within smtpd.conf(5) by use of the "mda" directive.

Ip6ix, if you use procmail you should at least be aware of this discussion on ports@ from five years ago:

Originally Posted by Philip Guenther

Executive summary: delete the procmail port; the code is not safe and
should not be used as a basis for any further work.

As people may know, I was the upstream maintainer of procmail back in the
late 1990's though 2001.

Recent fuzzing efforts have found several bugs in procmail. I was
contacted by the Debian port maintainer. (...)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m...4350915839&w=2

From what I gather, while the port hasn't been removed, its use is not encouraged.

[ip6ix]

Originally Posted by fvgit

Ip6ix, if you use procmail you should at least be aware of this discussion on ports@ from five years ago:


https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m...4350915839&w=2

From what I gather, while the port hasn't been removed, its use is not encouraged.

No, I wasn't aware of this. I've been using procmail for over 20 years, first on Linux and now on OpenBSD and have never had any problems, or rather, never noticed any. It still has a large userbase, which is why I suspect it hasn't been removed from ports.

However, while I'm in no hurry to change, I might quietly start to look for alternatives.

[TronDD]

I used to use fetchmail and anytime I mentioned it, I was pointed to fdm.

https://github.com/nicm/fdm

Written by OpenBSD dev nicm@

I only use it for fetching but it also does filtering and can be a procmail replacement. A quick search for 'fdm procmail' shows several blogs about switching.

[ip6ix]

Originally Posted by TronDD

I used to use fetchmail and anytime I mentioned it, I was pointed to fdm.

https://github.com/nicm/fdm

Written by OpenBSD dev nicm@

I only use it for fetching but it also does filtering and can be a procmail replacement. A quick search for 'fdm procmail' shows several blogs about switching.

That's really useful, thanks. Fdm is also mentioned a couple of times in the thread referenced in the post by @fvgit.

My procmail setup doesn't do anything particularly complex, mainly separate posts from root and several mailing lists into folders, so converting to fdm should be relatively straightforward.

[fvgit]

Your main alternatives probably are either fdm, as @TronDD suggested, or getmail and/or maildrop as independent replacements for fetchmail and/or procmail.

Personally I'm leaning towards the second, though. I still have a blog post (by one of the FreeBSD regulars, from wonkitty.com - site's gone now) saved somewhere explaining the conversion of a procmail ruleset to maildrop.

Although, if fdm would somehow make it into the OpenBSD base system, the decision would be easy.