Older Procmail Version Comparison Chart

Version
Date
Maintainer
LINEBUF
PROCMAIL_VERSION
SWITCHRC
Notes

3.10
31-Oct-94
 Stephen R. van den Berg
no*
no
no
  

3.11.7
28-Apr-97
 Stephen R. van den Berg
no*
no
no
  

3.12
2-Mar-99
 Stephen R. van den Berg
no*
yes
no
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable

3.13
31-Mar-99
 Stephen R. van den Berg
no*
yes
no
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable

3.13.1
5-Apr-99
 Stephen R. van den Berg
no*
yes
no
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable
  • Unofficial release- backported fixes from 3.14

3.14
22-Nov-99
 Stephen R. van den Berg

yes
yes
yes
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable
  • Socket issues

3.15
25-Aug-00
 Philip A. Guenther
yes
yes
yes
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable
  • Socket issues

3.15.2
18-Jul-01
 Philip A. Guenther
yes
yes
yes
  • Some regexps may return an incorrect value in the MATCH variable
  • Socket issues
      *can be set optionally, however      

Procmail version 3.14 and above should work all right with Virus Snaggers™. I have done some rudimentary testing and found 3.14 to be sufficient. I nevertheless recommend always having an up-to-date version of procmail installed.

Not all procmail releases are included in the table. My main goal in producing the table was to track where some major functionality changes occurred. Of primary importance to modern compartmentalized programming in procmail is the SWITCHRC. Stephen introduced it with ver. 3.14.