Re: Need some very very basic help with Maildrop please

On 11/12/2011 9:48 AM, brian wrote:

> But I would be stuck there, I think. If I have two users, with two
> "POLL" blocks in fetchmail, then is any parm passed
> to maildrop that I could use? I know I could set different DEFAULT=
> statements in each user's $HOME/.mailfilter.
> But then Maildrop needs to run with $HOME set correctly for each user.
> Is that how it works?

It's been forever since I used fetchmail, so ICBW. This all sounds like 
you're trying to pass mail from fetchmail directly to maildrop. I'm sure 
you can, but let me ask you this: what do you do with outgoing and local 
(e.g. from cron) mail? You must have a mail server (MTA) installed 
because cron and a few other things depend on it.

With MTA running on localhost, why not configure fetchmail to inject 
mail into its queue instead? I'm sure you'll find plenty of examples.

Then configure your MTA to use maildrop as delivery agent. Again, I'm 
sure there's plenty of examples out there, but really, if MTA->MDA path 
doesn't work out of the box, your distro is severely broken.

Dima

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