Re: Unable to create a dot-lock

Mark Constable <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/11/13 09:18, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> ~ cat /usr/bin/maildrop
>> #!/bin/sh
>> (echo $*; id ; env) | logger -p mail.info
>> /usr/bin/maildrop.orig $*
>
> Looks like maildrop gets invoked to deliver mail to the 'vmail' user,
> for all recipients, with the recipient's actual email address passed
> as a parameter. The vmail user must have a .mailfilter file that
> figures out where the mail gets delivered to. That's script is doing
> something wrong, and that's what you need to fix.

Thanks yet again Sam. You are right, there was a /var/vmail/.mailfilter
that handled delivery and the problem seemed to resolve itself once I
removed the debug script so it seems using $* to pass on the arguments
to the real binary was messing things up.

I went on to discover other problems so I replaced postfix with courier :)


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