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Maildrop is the mail filter/mail deilvery agent that's used by the Courier Mail Server.
It is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style mailboxes, and maildirs. "maildir" is a mailbox format used by the Qmail MTA.
Maildrop will optionally read instructions from a file, which describes how to filter incoming mail. Instructions can be provided having mail delivered to alternate mailboxes, or forwarded somewhere else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
It is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail in compiled form. However, it uses resources much more efficiently. Unlike procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message into memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are filtered from the temporary file. Temporary files are saved in the user's home directory. If the standard input to maildrop is a file, and not a pipe, a temporary file will not be necessary.
It checks the syntax of the mail delivery instructions the filter file, before attempting to deliver a message. Unlike procmail, if the filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without delivering the message. The user can fix the typo without causing any mail to be lost.
maildrop: The mail filter/mail deilvery agent that's used by the Courier Mail Server
Maildrop is the mail filter/mail deilvery agent that's used by the Courier Mail Server.It is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style mailboxes, and maildirs. "maildir" is a mailbox format used by the Qmail MTA.
Maildrop will optionally read instructions from a file, which describes how to filter incoming mail. Instructions can be provided having mail delivered to alternate mailboxes, or forwarded somewhere else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
It is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail in compiled form. However, it uses resources much more efficiently. Unlike procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message into memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are filtered from the temporary file. Temporary files are saved in the user's home directory. If the standard input to maildrop is a file, and not a pipe, a temporary file will not be necessary.
It checks the syntax of the mail delivery instructions the filter file, before attempting to deliver a message. Unlike procmail, if the filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without delivering the message. The user can fix the typo without causing any mail to be lost.
| Name: | maildrop |
| Release: | 3.1.8-1mamba |
| Group: | System/Servers |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 2,08 MB |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ |
| Build time: | 2024-08-07 10:20:42 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | librfc2045 librfc2045-devel librfc822 librfc822-devel maildrop maildrop-apidocs maildrop-debug | librfc2045 librfc2045-devel librfc822 librfc822-devel maildrop maildrop-apidocs maildrop-debug |
| Build requirements | glibc-devel [1] libcourier-authlib-devel [1] libcourier-authlib-devel[>=0:0.71.3] [1] libcourier-unicode-devel [1] libcourier-unicode-devel[>=0:2.3.0-1mamba] [1] libgcc [1] libgdbm-devel [1] libgdbm-devel[>=0:1.8.3] [1] libidn2-devel [1] libpcre2-devel [1] libstdc++6-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] libcourier-authlib-devel [1] libcourier-authlib-devel[>=0:0.71.3] [1] libcourier-unicode-devel [1] libcourier-unicode-devel[>=0:2.3.0-1mamba] [1] libgcc [1] libgdbm-devel [1] libgdbm-devel[>=0:1.8.3] [1] libidn2-devel [1] libpcre2-devel [1] libstdc++6-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-07 | Automatic Build System | 3.1.8-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-07-16 | Automatic Build System | 3.1.7-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-01-10 | autodist | 3.1.6-2mamba | - rebuilt by autoport with build requirements: libcourier-unicode-devel>=2.3.0-1mamba |
| 2023-08-15 | autodist | 3.1.6-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2023-05-02 | autodist | 3.1.5-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2023-04-07 | autodist | 3.1.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2023-04-06 | autodist | 3.1.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2023-02-20 | autodist | 3.1.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2022-12-04 | autodist | 3.1.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2022-11-23 | autodist | 3.0.9-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
