Hi all,

I'm trying to set up some mail filtering shamozzle that I can easily specify as the delivery instruction per user in my mysql table, such that I can filter and deliver email as appropriate based on particular users' prefs w/rt spam, etc.

I would like to invoke maildrop, and pass command-line arguments (for use as the $1, $2 etc variables). However, in order to do this, it appears necessary to either specify -d user, or specify a filter file prior to the arguments. Is there a way to avoid that?

(I only need a couple of common filter files, as opposed to a plethora of per-user .mailfilters; in fact, I am putting all my filtering into /etc/ courier/maildroprc, and altering behaviour based on the cmd line args.)

Also, "-d user@domain", where user@domain is the corresponding user in the mysql table, does not work (maildrop complains), despite the manpage. I am working around that instead by using the env var $USER or $RECIPIENT.

For the curious, my plan is to use "|maildrop recipientlist mode" for the delivery instruction, where recipientlist is a whitespace-delimited string containing delivery instructions (maildir locations or other email addresses), and mode is a word such as 'tag', 'delete', etc. indicating how to handle spammy messages. This way, I will be able to easily control per-mailbox handling of filtering prefs via the mysql table, while also overcoming the previously-noted limitation where the mysql delivery instruction does not allow more than one target.

-ben