Re: How is maildrop called from qmail ?

Julio,


On 2017-04-25 04:24, Julio Maidanik wrote:
> Philip,
> 
> Acording to Life with Qmail:
> 
> Invoking maildrop from .qmail is straightforward:
> 
> |maildrop
> 
> How maildrop filters and delivers mail is determined by the .mailfilter 
> file.
> See the mailfilter man page ...


It can't be that either - the global file:

   /etc/maildroprc

does not exist and the only uncommented line in ~/.mailfilter is:

   logfile "$HOME/.getmail/.maildrop.log"

but that just tells maildrop where to put the output . .

Thanks,

Phil.


> Regards,
> 
> Julio
> 
> 
> El 24/04/2017 a las 12:19 p.m., Philip Rhoades escribió:
>> People,
>> 
>> I have had qmail happily operating for many years and in more recent 
>> years I have started using maildrop as the MDA:
>> 
>>   maildrop-2.8.3.20151220-1.fc24.x86_64
>> 
>> It 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 - 
>> does qmail attempt to deliver to the user's Maildir and somehow 
>> something alerts maildrop to take delivery of the mail?  I've grepped 
>> through all the /etc dir and the qmail files and there is no mention 
>> of maildrop anywhere . .
>> 
>> Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated . .
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Phil.
> 
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