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diff --git a/doc/wiki/maildrop.txt b/doc/wiki/maildrop.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99d4883 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wiki/maildrop.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Maildrop +======== + +Maildrop is available at https://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 +https://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html + +Dovecot Authentication extension for maildrop +--------------------------------------------- + +Announced on the Dovecot's mailing list: +https://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 | https://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.0.4-dovecotauth.patch.txt | ++--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2.1.0 | https://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.1.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt | ++--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2.2.0 | https://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.2.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt | ++--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2.3.0, | https://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 2019-06-19 12:42) |