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From: Albert Martorell (albertcsc.unica.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 08:16:31 CST

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    Charlie Watts wrote:

    > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Albert Martorell wrote:
    >
    > > I've been running Postfix + Maildrop + Courier IMAP/POP + LDAP on a
    > > RH6.2 for two weeks, with maiboxes at /home/directories in maildir
    > > format. All seems to work fine, except that every day some "lost"
    > > mails appear in the /var/spool/mail. Users affected vary randomly and
    > > senders of these mails are indistinctlly local an not local.
    > > Permissions in home directories are ok.
    >
    > maildrop is case sensitive ... postfix doesn't lowercase addresses by
    > default when handing them to transports, but maildrop assumes lowercase
    > addresses ...

    I didn't know that, but I don't think this is the problem, because it happens
    with lowercase destination addresses, too.

    > > In the maillog, nothing strange seems to happen, but some delay:
    > >
    > > Jan 22 11:12:04 hostname postfix/pipe[1495]: 4E49B3BD10:
    > > to=<userdomain.dom>, relay=maildrop, delay=425, status=sent
    > > (hostname.domain.dom)
    > >
    > > Here's my postconf -n:
    > >
    > > home_mailbox = Maildir/
    >
    > This is ignored if you are using a non-postfix-supplied LDA.
    >

    Ok.

    >
    > > mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/maildrop
    >
    > I believe this is ignored too - because of your mailbox_transport setting.
    >

    Ok.

    >
    > > mailbox_size_limit = 50000000
    > > mailbox_transport = maildrop
    >
    > Can you show me what your master.cf maildrop entry looks like?
    >
    > Here is mine:
    >
    > maildrop unix - n n - 15 pipe
    > flags=uR user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${user}${nexthop}
    >
    > The flags are important.
    >

    Here's my maildrop entry in master.cf:

    maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
        flags=R user=mail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${user}

    What do you think?
    I'll have to read a little bit more about flags... :-)

    >
    > Does this help?
    >

    Any comment helps me a lot.
    Thanks!

        Albert

    >
    > --
    > Charlie Watts
    > cewattsfrontier.net
    > Frontier Internet, Inc.
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