Officially, the last stable procmail release was version 3.22, made in September of 2001. As one might expect, there has never been an official "the project is dead" announcement. Instead, only circumstantial evidence exists. Although several of the FTP mirrors include what appear to be development "snapshot" packages as recent as November of 2001, there does not appear to have been any substantial work since that time. The developers' mailing list has hardly seen a non-spam blip since 2003.

From https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141634350915839&w=2

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

From me:

This is for use at work by me, on our Solaris servers. Procmail is not provided by Oracle, or at least not in the standard install. I was wondering: If I'm going to go to the trouble to locate and install something (i.e. no default is available) should I go with procmail or something else? Maildrop looks reasonable. If I can get OpenCSW working, I'll see what's available there.

Kevin

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net> wrote:

On 2016-11-25 14:22, Theodore Baschak wrote:

On Nov 25, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:
I've read that procmail is somewhat deprecated. Is this true? Is anyone still using it regardless? What replacements are there that you recommend?

I'm using sieve for filtering mine where it does point at my MX.
Not b/c I was aware of a deprecation or anything like that, but purely
because it was in the recipe for the mail server I run.

I actually had to go in and update my sieve rules when the list-id for
roundtable list recently :-)

FWIW, I also use Sieve as implemented in my MDA, which is Dovecot. Works just as well as Procmail and a heck of a lot more readable. Implementations of tools to manage the ruleset are a bit... questionable, though. Roundcube has a decent rule editor, and so does Thunderbird (when it works).
-Adam

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