Re: Maildrop Virtual Users

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Newsgroups gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> I have a working Courier setup for my local domain, and two hosted
.> domains, using Unix user accounts with a smarthost relay for outgoing
>> mail. I wanted to try virtual users authenticated against a MySQL table so
>> I created a user "vmail" and a directory structure
>> "/home/vmail/[domain]/[user]/Maildir" for each domain and user, populated
>> the MySQL table with the appropriate values and switched authdaemon from
>> authpam to authmysql.
>> My problem is that maildrop is not doing what I want! If I set
>> DEFAULTDELIVERY to "| /usr/bin/maildrop" in courierd all mail is delivered
>> to a mailbox file at /var/mail (the $MAIL variable for vmail user), but
>> when DEFAULTDELIVERY is "./Maildir" mail is delvered to the correct
>> location.
>> I cannot work out what I have done wrong despite reading man pages and web
>> articles - can someone point me in the right direction (I am a relative
>> newbie to mail setup).

>Is /usr/bin/maildrop the maildrop that's a part of the Courier package, or
>the standalone version of maildrop?

It is the Courier version. I ran some tests as root:

$ maildrop -v
maildrop 2.1.0 Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc.
GDBM/DB extensions enabled.
Courier Authentication Library extension enabled.
Maildir quota extension enabled.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. See COPYING for additional information.


$ maildrop -V3 info <./mailmsg
maildrop: authlib: groupid=5000
maildrop: authlib: userid=5000
maildrop: authlib: [email protected],
home=/home/vmail/mydomain.co.uk/info/, mail=(default)
maildrop: Changing to /home/vmail/mydomain.co.uk/info/
Message start at 0 bytes, envelope [email protected]
maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter
maildrop: Filtering through `reformime -h "$MATCH1"`

$ ls -l /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 173440 Jan 28  2010 /usr/bin/maildrop

Neil.



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