I'm trying to use maildrop in concert with vpopmail/qmail. on a FreeBSD system.

My .qmail-defauly file looks like:

| /usr/local/bin/maildrop /var/qmail/users/antispam/mailfilter

So this would indicate to me that maildrop is running in Manual mode.

My mailfilter file contains a few command substitution lines:

VHOME=`/usr/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $EXT@$HOST` DATE=`date`

Both of these lines yield a RETURNCODE with a value of 1.

Why does the command substitution not work?