Hi,

My apologies if this is very trivial (it might well be!).

I have a qmail-server installed, and it's running well. I have installed qmail-scanner, and therefore maildrop. All is well.

I should like to use maildrop to filter mails, and have tried to enter this line:

| /usr/local/bin/maildrop -d maildrop

in the (test) users .qmail file. This however results in the mail just staying in the qmail queue.

If I run the command:

(echo "From: te...@gjerlov.dk" && echo "To: test...@gjerlov.dk" && echo "X-Spam-Status: Yes 22.6" && echo "Subject: SPAM test" && echo && echo "body123") | /usr/local/bin/maildrop -d maildrop

The mail is correctly filtered by my .mailfilter

If I run:

(echo "From: te...@gjerlov.dk" && echo "To: test...@gjerlov.dk" && echo "X-Spam-Status: Yes 22.6" && echo "Subject: SPAM test" && echo && echo "body") | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

with:

| /usr/local/bin/maildrop -d maildrop

in my .qmail file, the the mail just stays in the queue

If I change the .qmail file to just delivering the mail to the user, then the mail is delivered (but not filtered)

Having browsed for answers I think it might well be some compile options for maildrop that need to be set, namely I am thinking of the --enable-maildrop-uid --enable-maildrop-gid options. Should these be set to: --enable-maildrop-uid=root --enable-maildrop-gid=qmail

?

Is there a simple way to test where the problem might be?

Thanks in advance for any help!!