Re: How is maildrop called from qmail ?

Charles,


On 2017-04-25 04:01, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> [maildrop] just worked and I never really worried about it.  Now I am
>> actually trying to understand how the two programs interact -
>> maildrop doesn't run as a daemon and everything I have found just
>> says that it takes its input from StdIn which doesn't help me
>> understand the mechanism
> 
> maildrop, and more generally all delivery agent programs other than the
> built-in maildir/mbox ones in qmail-local, are "integrated" into qmail 
> by
> incorporating a delivery instruction in a .qmail file.  A program 
> delivery
> line looks like this:
> 
>   |program-name-or-path [args...]
> 
> That tells qmail-local to invoke that program with the message being 
> handed
> off attached to the programs stdin.  So the program reads the message 
> from
> stdin and does whatever the program is supposed to do with it.
> 
> There's a special case where the system administrator can make the 
> system-wide
> default delivery instruction such a program delivery, in which case it 
> won't
> show up in the .qmail file(s).
> 
> See the qmail manpages for more details -- `man dot-qmail` for 
> starters, then
> follow all the "see also" links in that one.


Found it . .:

   ~/.qmail

- now I feel silly . .

Many thanks!

Phil.
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