Re: Maildrop not running properly as virtual user

This sounds very like the issue I had and which was caused by not using the Courier maildrop package. Ensure you have the correct maildrop!

Priyadarsan Roy <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My maildrop does not seem to take the values for $HOME properly when
>running as virutal user. Find below the resuls when 
>
>When running as root user it picks up the sender correctly as below
>
>root@vlsmail:/etc/courier# echo "test" | /usr/bin/maildrop -V 9 -d
>[email protected]
>
>maildrop: authlib: groupid=5000
>maildrop: authlib: userid=5000
>maildrop: authlib: [email protected], home=/var/spool/mail/virtual,
>mail=/var/spool/mail/virtual/pd__2/
>maildrop: Changing to /var/spool/mail/virtual
>Message start at 0 bytes, envelope [email protected]
>maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter
>Tokenized eof
>maildrop: Delivery complete.
>
>
>But when running as virtual user it does not pick up the sender
>correctly.
>
>
>virtual@vlsmail:~$ echo "test" | /usr/bin/maildrop -V 9 -d [email protected]
>maildrop: authlib: groupid=5000
>maildrop: authlib: userid=5000
>maildrop: authlib: [email protected], home=/var/spool/mail/virtual,
>mail=/var/spool/mail/virtual/pd__2/
>maildrop: Changing to /home/virtual
>Message start at 0 bytes, envelope sender=virtual
>maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter
>maildrop: Delivering to ./Maildir
>maildrop: Flock()ing ./Maildir.
>maildrop: Appending to ./Maildir.
>maildrop: Delivery complete.
>
>It is delivering the mail to /home/virtual
>
>Would appreciate much help in resolving this issue.
>
>Regards,
>Roy
>
>
>
>
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