7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop[maildropl] Re: Maildrop - Postfix /v...
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William GoldenJul 24, 2004 7:59 pm 
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Subject:[maildropl] Re: Maildrop - Postfix /var/spool/postfix configure errorActions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Jul 25, 2004 3:46:40 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

William Golden writes:

So why does ./configure fail with the error ..

checking location of system mailboxes… configure: error: Cannot determine default mailbox configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for maildrop

Because the configure script was unable to find something that looks like the system mailbox directory in the usual places where the system mailbox directory is expected to be found.

But if I put a symlink with "ln -s /var/spool/postfix mail" I no longer get a ./configure error?

Right, because now you've made maildrop believe that system mailboxes exists in /var/spool/postfix; so for mail addressed to user "john", it will try to deliver the message to a mailbox called /var/spool/postfix/john.

Since john is not likely to have write privileges to the Postfix spool directory, mail delivery will fail.

Only you know where the system mailboxes reside on your system. See maildrop's INSTALL for instructions on how to tell maildrop where the system mailboxes are.