I've setup maildrop with sendmail and it appears to be working with a few exceptions. I am not able to get my filtering rules to work. Note however that email is being delivered to the maildir.

maildrop was compiled on a Red Hat ES4 system with the following options...

./configure --enable-syslog=1 --enable-sendmail=program --with-etcdir=/etc/mail ; make ; make install-strip ; make install-man

permissions on /etc/maildroprc look like...

[root@rock-pamela etc]# ls -l /etc/maildroprc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 174 Sep 14 13:34 /etc/maildroprc

my /etc/maildroprc file looks like this....

SHELL="/bin/bash" SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/sendmail" MAILDROP="/usr/local/bin/maildrop" logfile "/var/log/maildrop" VERBOSE="4"

if (/^Subject:.*[:mailtestnow:]/ \ { /dev/null }

When an email with the subject mailtestnow shows up, it is delivered to the user. Is the syntax totally wrong, why can I not filter? Please help.

Thanks in advance,