Jay Lee writes:

Perl used to barf over scripts with DOS eol being run on a *nix box. That has largely been eliminated, although there are still certain cases that fail (from vague memory, "here documents"). But perl runs on many platforms (even obscure ones most people never heard of) whereas maildrop is strictly *nix.

One fix is to install sqwebmail just so people can use it to create and edit filters. It's hard enough teaching our less-gifted customers how to use that, so we'd have no chance of getting them to edit the filters directly. Then again, with a vpopmail setup there's no way we could give them direct access to the filters without compromising security since the entire domain directory structure is owned by vpopmail:vchkpwd.

That means the next time they edit the file they'll remember about changing the EOLs. :)

Very similar to what our global filter has. I pieced it together from various suggestions on the vpopmail/qmailadmin mailing list Ours ends with:

exception { include ./.mailfilter }

to $VMAILDIR

I think that your exit at the end would cause the mail to be thrown away or bounced rather than be delivered. So yours should probably look like:

exception { include $HOME/.mailfilter }

to $HOME/Maildir

Then again, I did that so long ago I can't remember if I checked it with a broken filter. Maybe that doesn't work if the filter is broken and I'm happily deluding myself.