maildrop authdaemon: s_connect() failed

Hi,

I am using maildrop since years as MDA to deliver mail from postfix. 
Recently I decided to use it in a getmail environment to do mail filtering 
of mail that is retrieved from a provider via getmail. On my first attempts 
maildrop exited with the error "ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such 
file or directory" because the courier-authdaemon package was not install. 
After installation it worked smoothly.

I am wondering why maildrop did not complain before when it was started from 
postfix as MDA about missing authdaemon.

Thanks & regards,

mls



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