Re: maildrop?

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 13:38:40 EST


* Luc Brouard <>:

> I am using :
> mailbox_transport = maildrop
> with this transport in master.cf
> maildrop unix - n n - 10 pipe
> flags=uR user=mail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${user}
>
> And aliases are working ok. So maybe it seems to me that both
> (aliases and using maildrop for delivery) are possible at the same
> time.

What a very good idea! That way both "local" (aliases) and "maildrop"
(rest of delivery) can be used.

> By the way (while I am at it), sometimes I have an error failed to
> deliver to mailbox (or something like that), the mail is still in
> the mail queue but it *did* get delivered each time, and even
> multiple times as the queue is tried again.

Sounds like a temporary error returned by the /usr/bin/maildrop
would cause this.

> Can it be related to the
> number of processes (simultaneous delivery) set to 10.
> It didn't really mattered to me before and I didn't check my
> configuration, it is just when I did cut and paste for this mail
> that I thought that might be the reason for this error.

Maybe maildrop can be made to write a lot.

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