On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:11:16 +0000
Kevin Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> thanks for the answer - i have printed out the man pages and am looking 
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> debian has two packages - maildrop and courier-maildrop - here are their 
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> Package courier-maildrop
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>     * stable (mail): Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
>       0.37.3-2.3: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
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> Package maildrop
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>     * stable (mail): mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
>       1.3.7-2: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
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> as can be seen they are at diferent versions
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> could someone explain the difference between these packages?  the 
> descriptions are indentical.
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> i have to be cautious cos i need to add maildrop's facilities to a live email 
> server,

The different versions reflect the different versions of maildrop (standalone)
and courier (full). In the past sqwebmail didn't interact as intended with
maildrop, so I introduced the courier-maildrop package. If you don't need
sqwebmail, I recommend to use the maildrop package.

        Racke


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