I used to use qmail on my mailserver. But then I got tired of looking for patches to do EVERYTHING, so I decided to try to use Postfix.

Postfix works great and has all the features I wanted by default, except one. I miss dot-qmail files. Postfix's dot-forward doesn't even come close. I even downloaded "maildrop" in the hopes that it would support dot-courier files, but without the entire courier-mta, the standalone maildrop does not.

The reason I want to do this is because on this non-production box, I want to be able to send everything to the user straight-through. I want to be able to make the file .forward-tmda work with TMDA only. But since postfix won't do .forward-tmda-default, I can't do this.

Does anyone out there know how I can do this?

I posted to the 'maildrop' mailing list to see if I'm missing something there and there really is a way to do it, but haven't seen a response yet, so maybe I can't do it with maildrop. Maybe I'll come up with some clever .mailfilter code that does the same thing, but it looks like it would be really hard, particularly since I haven't seen a way to check if a file exists from within a .mailfilter file, and if you try to "include" a non-exitent file, processing stops and an error occurrs. Not really what I want.

I haven't really looked at procmail yet - could it maybe do this?

Maybe I'll just write my own local delivery agent (maybe in python...) that does what I want... unless anyone else out there knows what I can use instead. If I did implement such a beast, would anyone be interested in using it?

--
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English?  That's unpossible!"

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