Re: maildrop authdaemon: s_connect() failed

[email protected] writes:

> 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.

maildrop requires authdaemon only when the -d option gets used.

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