Ok, I'd been working on this some more, with no success.

First of all, I strace'd a running maildrop, and noticed that it doesn't even look for /etc/courier/userdb (or userdb anything at all). So I figured maybe Debian's version has that disabled, so I built my own from source, but get exactly the same results. I tried with --enable-userdb on the configure line (as I've seen mentioned in google searches, e.g. here: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2002-04/0631.html ), despite that not being mentioned in the maildrop docs anywhere that I could find.

So, now for the benefit of anyone else picking this up in a search, I tried the Debian courier-maildrop package, which it is recommended you don't use unless you use sqwebmail in the package info. The strace shows that it does access userdb, and it gives me a different error message, one that is indicative of it getting further than it did last time. Hopefully this one works once I fix the error I'm getting. (If you see me here again in the near future, that means it didn't :)

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