Re: Need some very very basic help with Maildrop please
"brian" <[email protected]>
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On 11/15/2011 08:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 11/15/2011 01:16 PM, brian wrote: > >> Hi, >> well I took maildrop out of the Fetchmal config, and started looking at >> how Fetchmail >> Exim4 and Dovecot work together and see there, Maildrop.log in each >> user's home >> directory and it seems to be working perfectly. Seems like Exim4 had the >> correct config >> set up, but Maildrop was not installed. I have one copy, and I installed >> that via apt >> last week. >> >> Very strange. > MTAs typically don't need a separate MDA just to dump mail into user's > mailbox, so maildrop& procmail don't get installed by default. > >> Next step look at local delivery where possible, and filtering with >> maildrop. And, yes, >> it does seem to be using the .mailfilter files correctly for each user. > I was kinda hoping that it was the case. That's what makes this setup > easier. > > cheers If I understand correctly then Exim will try all its mail transports till one works, and I guess the Maildrop one now works since I installed Maildrop. Thats my explanation and I'm sticking to it <G> Anyway, I have everything working now the way I wanted it and the scripts are triggered the way I expected. So thanks very much for your tip, and all the others that replied. Cheers Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Courier-maildrop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-maildrop