Re: [maildropl] qmail w/maildrop 1.5 won't spawn w/Maildir delivery

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

(No need to Cc: me, I'm on the list.)

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, up@3.am wrote:

> > Did you read the second part? "edit it to use maildrop".
> 
> Sure did, but it was the "Maildir" part that worried me...

Allow me one question: do you evaluate the documentation that ships with
software before you install it or right after installation? I find
maildrop(1) pretty clear.

> > http://www.procmail.org/ is at your service.
> 
> Yes, thanks...I just looked through the three example procmailrc's under
> the untarred source and saw nothing helpful.  They even use "Maildir" in a
> completely different context as a variable, which would confuse me even
> more :-/

Yes, there's MAILDIR as the base directory for relative delivery
instructions and there's Maildir as the mail spool format. It's subtle,
but procmail's "MAILDIR" environment variable predates the maildir
format, and they can't change it just because somebody else names his
mail spool algorithm the same as their environment variable.

> > Then check the whole path to the maildrop filter file, you might find a
> > directory that is not executable.
> 
> /usr/local/etc/maildroprc is the filter file and the path is world
> executable throughout.  This shouldn't be this difficult...

Indeed, it's not. Try running maildrop manually, with -V option if
necessary, or try tracing it. (strace, truss, ktrace, trace)

-- 
Matthias Andree