thanks for the answer - i have printed out the man pages and am looking
through them.
debian has two packages - maildrop and courier-maildrop - here are their
brief summaries...
Package courier-maildrop
* stable (mail): Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
0.37.3-2.3: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
Package maildrop
* stable (mail): mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
1.3.7-2: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
as can be seen they are at diferent versions
could someone explain the difference between these packages? the
descriptions are indentical.
i have to be cautious cos i need to add maildrop's facilities to a live email
server,
thanks,
kev bailey
On Monday 01 March 2004 8:13 am, Jeff Jansen wrote:
> On Sunday 29 February 2004 22:35, Kevin Bailey wrote:
> > is maildrop the default local mail delivery agent as it seems to say in
> > the man page.Package courier-maildrop
> >
> > in which case - why is there a maildrop-courier package in the debian
> > package archives - what does this package do?
>
> Courier is a suite of programs. You can install all or parts of the
> system. So if you download and install the courier tarball then you get
> the whole thing - MTA, imap/pop3 server, MDA (maidrop), webmail
> (sqwebmail), etc. I don't run debian but I imagine it's the same thing
> when packaged for debian.
>
> But if you prefer you can also just install certain parts of the suite. So
> you can install just the imap/pop3 server, just maildrop, just sqwebmail,
> etc. If you already run postfix as your MTA but want to use courier's imap
> server and maildrop you can download and install just those pieces.
>
> So what you are seeing is (probably) a stand-along version of maildrop for
> use with other MTAs. You don't need this (or any other pieces) if you
> install the full courier suite. (Check out
> "www.courier-mta.org/download.php" for a listing of the different pieces.)
>
> > and if i want to set up maildrop to handle certain email addresses in a
> > particualr way (all virtual domains) where is the documentation
> > explaining the maildrop confoguration file?
>
> Check out "man maildrop" for the overview of how maildrop works, then "man
> maildropfilter" for an explanation of the maildrop syntax, and then "man
> maildropex" for some examples of how to filter mail using maildrop.
>
> HTH.
>
> Jeff Jansen
>
>
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