Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [funtoo] [bugzilla-daemon-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

[Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net>]

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 06:03:49PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:56:52 +0200
> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > 
> > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down.
> > 
> > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates
> > missing maildir directories.
> 
> Upstream first (TM).

I'm pretty sure that the main problem with procmail is that its upstream is quite dead. The proper solution might be simply a fork of procmail by someone who is willing to accept and apply distros' patches. This would be completely independent of distributions... or could be similar to Fedora (or a Fedora maintainer) starting up tigervnc. The problem with this approach would be getting enough momentum behind it and having distributions recognize such a fork.

I was myself interested in pushing a patch (unfortunately it's still unfinished :-/) to procmail's upstream, but had trouble finding the upstream. If anyone has had better luck or knows of a fork like I describe above, I'd be interested. Of course, knowing that there is an upstream to submit such a patch to would be a great encouragement for me to finish writing it. ;-)

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