Edit File: maildrop.txt
Maildrop ======== Maildrop is available at http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop Although it is the default LDA for the courier mail server, it also works as a standalone LDA. The install script can even build an rpm package if you prefer to manage software that way. Maildrop can be used with sendmail as a drop-in replacement for procmail. It has better maildir support than procmail and it has filtering capability using syntax that looks a lot like shell script language with a little bit of perl thrown in. To use maildrop with sendmail, make the following change in your sendmail.mc file, then make etc. ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- dnl FEATURE(`local_procmail,', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl dnl # replace above line with below line to use maildrop instead of procmail FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/bin/maildrop', `maildrop -d $u')dnl ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- A default system wide configuration file for maildir style mailboxes might look like the following: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- # file: /etc/maildroprc # system-wide settings for maildrop SHELL="/bin/bash" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" logfile "/var/log/maildrop.log" DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/" ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the above configuration, the users should be a member of the same group and the group should have write privileges to the logfile. To use maildrop with Postfix, take a look at http://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html Dovecot Authentication extension for maildrop --------------------------------------------- Announced on the Dovecot's mailing list: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039121.html A patch for maildrop that would allow it to perform user lookups directly against Dovecot in a similar way how they are done by Dovecot's LDA deliver depending on used version of maildrop is available at the following locations: +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | *maildrop* | *patch* | +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2.0.4 | http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.0.4-dovecotauth.patch.txt | +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2.1.0 | http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.1.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt | +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2.2.0 | http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.2.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt | +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2.3.0, | http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.3.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt | | 2.4.0-2.4.3, | | | 2.5.0-2.5.4 | | +--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ When this patch is applied, maildrop will be extended with another command line option "-t", which can be used to specify the location of Dovecot's master auth socket that will be used when performing user lookups. There's a readme file (README.dovecotauth) together with patch with a little bit more information regarding the use of this extension. (This file was created from the wiki on 2018-02-28 04:42)