maildrop

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:34:48AM -0700, Joseph McCarty wrote:
> I'm setting up qmail as MTA on my Redhat 7.2 Intel box.  From what I have
> read, maildrop has some advantages over procmail as MDA with qmail.  One
> advantage is maildrop's native support for the maildir mailbox format. 
> I'd appreciate opinions on this.

Procmail does have Maildir mailbox format support.  It didn't used to, but
you could fake it with a wacky looking set of recipes at the end of your
.procmailrc.

I'm not at all familiar with maildrop, though.  I can say that NBLUG's
mirror does have a copy of maildrop for Debian hiding out in our mirror
directories someplace... 
(/pub/mirror/debian/pool/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_1.3.7-2_i386.deb)

A quick "apt-cache show maildrop" later and I learn that, apparently,
maildrop "uses a structured filtering language that's a bit easier on the
eyes." (than procmail's)

In fact, I use qmail and procmail together right now.  (Along with
spamassassin.)

.qmail-default:
|preline procmail

.procmailrc:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
ORGMAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log

# Mutt looks prettier when the "Lines:" header is right.
:0 bw
LINES=|grep -c ^

:0 fhw
| formail -a "Lines: $LINES"

:0 fw
| spamassassin -P -a

:0
* X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
$HOME/Maildir/spam/

# Mutt looks prettier when the "Lines:" header is right.
:0 bw
LINES=|grep -c ^

:0 fhw
| formail -a "Lines: $LINES"

# Falls off the end and goes into $DEFAULT



> I found maildrop rpms on speakeasy, but ran up against a failed dependency
> on libstdc++.so.2.10.  This is not to be found for i386 anywhere via
> google.  It seems that this version of the gnu compiler is only generic to
> sun systems.  Also, I encountered notes saying that maildrop can't be
> compiled on more recent gnu compilers.

I'd try grabbing a .src.rpm file and trying "rpm --rebuild
maildir*src.rpm"
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