From: Matthias Andree (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 17:32:27 EST
(Vikki Roemer) writes:
>> No, on failure, it exits with code 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) right away.
>
> Oh. So, when it runs into a problem, it just gives up?
Yes, it does. And it tells Postfix to retry later (the user may have
fixed the .mailfilter file or deleted some big files that filled up his
disk.)
>> What do you assume is not written properly? If the .mailfilter file
>> cannot be parsed, maildrop will defer all mail, if that's your
>> question. If you just mistype the mailbox, there no way to detect that
>> typo though.
>
> Well, see, the main reason I used that as an example is, I'm having
> that problem with procmail at the moment; I wrote a recipe to put mail
> from the libranet-users mailing list into its own mailbox-- I also did
> the same with debian-user and postfix-users. But the recipes are
> basically the same for libranet-users, debian-user, and postfix-users,
> only the names are different. Yet, inexplicably, the mail from the
> libranet-users list won't go where I said for it to, but debian-user
> and postfix-users will. Procmail just dumps the libranet-users mail
> into my /var/mail mailbox, presumably because it doesn't fit any of
> the rules I've set up.
Yes, so you'd need to trace what's wrong, procmail has a verbose mode,
as has maildrop.
> That's one thing I'm annoyed about. Also, no matter what I tell
> procmail, it won't put random mail that doesn't fit into any other
> mailbox into my ~/Mail/inbox ; it insists on putting it in /var/mail.
You can override DEFAULT. DEFAULT=~/Mail/inbox
>> If a half to one magnitude is not absurdly, then that's fine.
>
> *shrug* That doesn't sound bad. Absurd is taking 3+ minutes to
> process 1 message. Or something close to that. What is or is not
> 'absurd' depends on my mood. :)
On my personal computer, when mail ran on a IBM DJNA-class ATA drive,
local would deliver 11 emails/s, procmail 3, and maildrop somewhat less
than procmail, but still more than 1 email/s.
> No, I don't think that would work-- I receive my email through my ISP,
> 2khiway, a la fetchmail. I'm just using my own SMTP server to send
> out mail (rather than just for local delivery with spam-filtering) because
> 2khiway's brain-damaged Win2k server wouldn't play nicely with my
> postfix server-- it would silently drop all the mail that I tried
> sending out, unless it was test mail to myself.
Wow, excellent service. Not.
> They've gotten a new server since then, but I'm happy with my setup
> and I'm keeping it. :) So I haven't tried sending through 2khiway. I
> would see about getting my own domain name and setting up my own pop3
> server, but my parents can't afford the electric bills they'd get from
> me keeping my computer up 24/7. :( Oh, well. Anyway...
You'd have to have a leased line or static IP, and that's going to be
REALLY expensive.
> So I've apt-gotten maildrop, and I'm going to set it up and see how it
> is. Wish me luck. :\
No need. maildrop is not a game of luck :-)
-- Matthias Andree
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