Its not that I have not been successful getting vpopmail to work with
maildrop but more along the lines that there is no good way to do this
sitewide or with the inter7 tools.
If I make an alias for myself using qmailadmin let just say its
.qmail-myself it will contain ./thunter/Maildir/
therefore it will not use the filters that I put in place for
.qmail-tim:hunter ( | maildrop -m
~vpopmail/domains/cimx.com/tim.hunter/.mailfilter)
The thing I liked about the filter option in vpopmail is that it would look
for a .vpopfilter file in my virtual home dir and then follow the delivery
instructions there. I would think that a similar compile time option like
this would be nice, even if it does call maildrop to do the delivery. I
would think that it would be somewhat trivial to look for a .mailfilter file
in the virtual home.
Similarly sqwebmail does not create filters properly for virtual users,
making delivery instructions such as ".lists/." which then maildrop tries to
put in ~vpopmail/Maildir/.lists
minor quibble possibly but making maildrop rules editable from sqwebmail
useless for virtual users
I have thought about editing the sqwebmail source to make complete paths to
the maildir like
"/home/vpopmail/domains/cimx.com/tim.hunter/Maildir/.lists/." but haven't
made the time since currently I am the only one using a hacked setup like
this.
If anyone has better experience with using maildrop with
qmailadmin/vpopmail/sqwebmail I would like to hear it. Also if the
possibility for getting a "global" check for .mailfilter file on delivery
would be nice though I understand it could be costly to make another check
before delivery.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Henze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:22 AM
To: Tim Hunter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vpopmail filtering
hi tim,
--On Montag, 25. Juni 2001 16:34 -0400 Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I was reading the changelog for the latest release of vpopmail (4.10.24)
> and noticed the comment about removing the filtering from vpopmail.
> --snip---
> - removed the filter option in configure and the README.filter
> file from the distribution. The same functionality can
> now be done with maildrop.
> -- end snip---
>
> does this mean that vpopmail will now look for a .mailfilter file in the
> users home dir (virtual or real?) and call maildrop?
no, use a .qmail file in teh users home with a line like:
|maildrop -m mailfilterrulefile
create a mail drop filter rule file. thats it.
Matthias Henze MH458-RIPE
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