[courier-users] calling maildrop with environment variables

[<jh...@my...>]

Hi,

I'd like to call maildrop from another programm and pass values via
environment variables (unless someone knows a smarter way).

But I don't get it managed - neither from that program, nor from the
command line.

on commandline:
export FOO="Bar"

in maildroprc:
THING=$FOO

and running maildrop -V 9 < somefile
gives (among other lines)

Tokenized string: "THING"
Tokenized =
Tokenized string: "$FOO"

and

/etc/maildroprc(11): THING=""

Where's my error?

Regards,
Jürgen