> Subject: Re: [courier-users] maildrop 2.04 vs 2.5.0 and Maildir problem
> From: Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>
>

> maildrop never creates maildirs. In order for maildrop to deliver to a 
> maildir, it must exist already. If you do not create a maildir, 
> maildrop will create an mbox file.

The maildirs are there, they are created with a file called maildirmake, 
which is from courier
>
> The stock maildrop does not work this way.
>
> maildrop expects to read the mail filtering recipe from 
> $HOME/.mailfilter. In your case, where you appear to specify an 
> account's home directory as /home/vmail, maildrop would then read 
> /home/vmail/.mailfilter
>
> If you had a customized/patched version of maildrop that did something 
> else, you'll have to retrace your steps and rebuild your custom 
> version of maildrop.


It is the debian package version, the other, working box, also used the 
debian package for that distribution... so all I did was type   'apt-get 
install courier-maildrop'  ... so I guess I have to track down the 
authors of that package and talk to them?

I am just trying to get maildrop to deliver mail.   Do you have any 
advice for how I can do that?  Should I install it from source instead 
so that I can customize it in the way you say I need to do? Should I 
just use a different MDA?

Thanks for your response.
Jim

>
> > Maildrop also doesn't seem to know to 'use' the Maildir format, instead
> > it's thinking Maildir is the mailbox even though I
> > have home_mailbox = Maildir/ in my postfix config file..
>
> maildrop doesn't know anything what you put in a postfix configuration 
> file.
>
> You always must precreate a maildir, before maildrop can deliver to it.
>
>

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