Dear all,

I have installed qmail-vpop with all the instructions from qmailrocks.com site and have now a successful running mail server.But now i want to put some filter rules so that i can block or delete certain mails from going to users mailbox. I believe maildrop provides certain filtering but there is no proper documentation how to use or configure it apart from just the steps given on the site how to install maildrop. Ihave refered a link http://gentoo-wiki.com/Maildrop_configuration for help but this site just says about either deleting or moving the intended mails to some other mailbox. More over the /etc/maildroprc file mentioned on gentoo-wiki website site also is not existing even though i have installed maildrop as given in qmailrocks.com site.I need to know how to make qmail/maildrop read the ./mailfilter file of users. I will give you an example of what type of filtering i am looking for.

Theres a pop a/c on remote yahoo.com server which is a catchall acount ( that is any thing @mydomain.com will come in this pop a/c mail box) , i have a qmail-vpop mail server running at my office to fetch all the mails from remote server and drop in to various users's inbox. Now i have 1 user name 'x' who has a pop a/c also on another remote server say hotmail.com . Now he gets many mails during the day which are spam , mail read confirmation receipts and some genuine mails on the yahoo.com server , i want to set up a filter as ... the spam mails and the mail read confirmation receipt should be delivered to him locally whereas only the genuine mails should get forwarded to his hotmail a/c as well a copy to his local inbox.

My mailserver details are as follows

--------------------------------------------------- [root@server usr]# cat /etc/redhat-release PCQLinux 2005 (WhiteHope)

[root@server usr]# uname -r 2.6.10-1.741_FC3

[root@mailserv maildrop-1.6.3]# cd maildrop-1.6.3

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --enable-maildrop-uid=root --enable-maildrop-gid=vchkpw --enable-maildirquota

make && make install-strip && make install-man

Can anyone help me in configuring maildrop and how to implement filter rules using it.

Regards