maildrop: manpage inconsistency on /etc/maildroprc

Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:53:05 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi upstream people,

There is a bug report on Debian:
  https://bugs.debian.org/741158

This is true for 2.9.3.

Let me rephrase it here a bit.

maildrop(1) states in the section DESCRIPTION:

   Manual mode
       A file containing filtering instructions - filename is specified 
       as an argument to the maildrop command.  maildrop reads this 
       filename (after /etc/maildroprc) and follows the instructions in 
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       it. Unless the message is explicitly forwarded, bounced, deleted, 
       or delivered to a specific mailbox, it will be delivered to the 
       user's system mailbox.
   Delivery mode
       maildrop is the mail server's mail delivery agent.  maildrop runs
       in delivery mode when no filename is specified on the command line.
       maildrop changes the current directory to the user's home
       directory, then reads /etc/maildroprc, then $HOME/.mailfilter.

But later in the section DELIVERY MODE
    
       Note
	   /etc/maildroprc is read only in delivery mode.

The "(after /etc/maildroprc)" in "Manual mode" is inconsistent with this
"Note" statement.  

We should either drop "(after /etc/maildroprc)" or update "Note"
statement.

Regards,

Osamu

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