Hi I'm trying to figure out how to get the new filter functionality in sqwemail (I have 3.5.3) working with vpopmail 5.3.23 (which I'm just about to install because I was using 5.2.1 until I found the authentication bug affecting courier-imap).
I've searched mailing list archives, dug around on google, read the maildrop docs and still the solution eludes me. I can get it to work if I manually create a .qmail file in a user's maildir but that is not an option on a server which will eventually have many virtual domains each administered by the holders of those domains names and who can add users at will. It looks to me as if /etc/maildroprc might do the trick but unfortunately I cannot afford to play with anything that might cause mail to bounce because my pointy-haired boss decided to use his new personal domain as a test domain on this server and once it was able to send and receive mail he used it to subscribe to various mailing lists that generate hundreds of mails a day about his cherished hobby. Any solution must meet the following requirements: 1) Fully compatible with sqwebmail's filters. The whole point of trying to get maildrop to work is to allow the use of those filters. 2) Fully compatible with qmailadmin. It must not require tweaks to .qmail files that get undone when they are modified by qmailadmin. In particular, qmailadmin must be able to modify .qmail-default without disrupting filtering. 3) Does not require any manual intervention by me to enable filters for newly-added users. When a domain administrator adds a new user with qmailadmin then filters should automatically be available and should not require the administrator to request me to turn filtering on for a new user. These requirements do not seem unreasonable to me so I suspect that either vpopmail has yet to catch up with the new sqwebmail filters or I'm missing the blindingly obvious (almost certainly the latter). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Paul Allen Softflare Support
