Re: How is maildrop called from qmail ?

David,


On 2017-04-25 03:50, David I. Bell wrote:
> Hi Philip,
> 
> I don't use maildrop, but it occurs to me that perhaps it is being
> invoked from the .qmail delivery file since that where qmail-local
> picks up it's delivery instructions?


Like I said, "maildrop" is not mentioned in any file under:

   /var/qmail

Thanks,

Phil.


> David
> 
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> 
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>> Cowra  NSW  2794
>> Australia
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> 
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