I'm trying to switch from UW-IMAP to Courier. I'm running on Debian Woody and using Postfix as my MTA. I also want to use virtual users and of course have Courier use Maildir format mailboxes.

I got the courier-imap server to install and figured that I needed to change authdaemonrc to use userdb. This works. Now I just need a way to get e-mail.

When I type "maildrop -d <user>" it works for system users. When I try "maildrop -d <virtuser>" it says: "maildrop: Invalid user specified". This leads me to believe that maildrop is not using userdb.

I tried doing "apt-get source maildrop" (debian's way to download source) and then "./configure --with-db=db --enable-userdb". Then "make" and "make install". The resulting maildrop also seems to ignore userdb. I then downloaded the latest maildrop from sourceforge and the same thing happened.

Clearly I'm missing something here -- how do I tell maildrop to use userdb? How do I tell it where userdb lives?

Anyway, any suggestions would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

Jen

P.S. I used "make install" instead of "make install-strip" because "make install-strip" fails with: "strip: /usr/local/share/maildrop/scripts/makedat: File format not recognized /usr/bin/install: strip failed". The instructions say that if "make install-strip" fails then try "make install" which is what I did. Could this have something to do with my problem?