Re: Maildrop Virtual Users

> [email protected] writes:
>
>> >> 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.
>
> No, this is not the Courier version of maildrop. This is the standalone
> version.
>
> The only way to get this maildrop configuration work for your set up is to
> invoke it from each account's .courier file with the -d option.
>


Sam,

Thanks for that and apologies - I presumed the "Courier Authentication
Library extension enabled." meant it was the Courier version. Have
installed the Courier maildrop and all is well. I guess my Debian had the
standalone already installed before Courier.
(Apologies also for starting a new thread but the list server didn't send
your original reply to me...)

Neil.



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