Hi guys,

I'm trying my luck here.

I installed postfix/amavis/courierpop last week, and everything ran fine. Now I want to implement quota's by using maildrop (the easiest way I think).

I got Martin List-Petersen his custom debian packages (thanks m8), and he gave me some pointers. I got quite far, but now I'm stuck.

Maildrop does not query my MySQL server when it has to deliver to virtual mailaccounts. When I deliver to an existing system user, everything works. (Tested this thru command line).

these are some log extracts :

the error :

Oct 1 11:16:42 mailserver postfix/pipe[5817]: 90D1712E98:
to=<te...@scheppers-wetteren.be>, relay=maildrop, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop:
Invalid user specified. )

the master.cf file config line

maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=R user=virtual argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -V9 -d ${recipient}

in main.cf only this is added :

local_destination_concurrency_limit=1

oh, and my /etc/passwd is like this : virtual:x:1011:1011:Virtual User:/var/spool/postfix/virtual:/bin/sh

mailserver:/var/spool/postfix/deferred/1/0# cat 1004D12E92 | maildrop -V9 -d
hermes maildrop: Changing to /home/hermes Message start at 0 bytes, envelope sender=hermes Tokenized ; Tokenized ; Tokenized ; Tokenized ; Tokenized ; Tokenized eof maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter maildrop: Delivering to /home/hermes/./Maildir/. maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock. mailserver:/var/spool/postfix/deferred/1/0# cat 1004D12E92 | maildrop -V9 -d
te...@scheppers-wetteren.be maildrop: Invalid user specified. mailserver:/var/spool/postfix/deferred/1/0#

The only problem here is that maildrop does not use the mysql database that it should use. /etc/maildrop/maildropmysql.config exists, but apparently maildrop is not reading it ?

thanks

PJ