Re: (no subject)

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Jul 2015 06:58:34 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Nethub Online - Ming writes:

> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam <at> courier-mta.com> writes:
>
> >
> > I don't know anything about vmoduser, or how it invokes maildrop.
> >
> > Looking at my maildir, there are no From_ lines in any message. Either the
> > >From header gets added by whatever invokes maildrop to deliver mail, or
> > maildrop thinks it's delivering to an mbox file.
> >
> >
>
>
> Thanks Sam again.
>
> I found the problem.
>
> I am using vpopmail-5.4.33 + qmail, and I found that vdelivermail.c of
> vpopmail contains this line:
>
> 	sprintf(maildrop_command, "| preline %s", MAILDROP_PROG);
>
> After I removed "preline ", then the maildrop won't add "From " header
> anymore. And I checked preline is the qmail binary which is
> "/var/qmail/bin/preline".
>
> Since I tested maildrop prior to version 2.6.0 doesn't has this problem, but
> only 2.7.0 or later version, so I am not sure it is maildrop's handling
> problem or vpopmail should not add "preline" before maildrop.

maildrop never needed the From line. Earlier versions removed it, if it was  
there, but that was changed, when maildrop's internals were rewritten to  
support UTF-8.

> Do you think this is qmail/vpopmail problem? If yes I will report to
> vpopmail community.
>
> One last question, do you think I can remove "preline" before calling  
> maildrop?

Yes. maildrop never needed the From line.

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