I have configured RH7.3 and qmail with LDAP and sqwebmail 3.5.1. The users are
able to login using LDAP authentication. Maildrop has been installed w/o any
specific switches. The users wanted vacation auto-replies and other features.

All users are created using vmail i.e under /home/vmail/$user. The
.qmail-default file is in this directory and below this is Maildir - i.e.
/home/vmail/$user/Maildir

I have created /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/maildirfilterconfig having

MAILDIRFILTER=../.mailfilter

MAILDIR=./Maildir

The user's .qmail-default file contains

|/usr/local/bin/maildrop

./Maildir/

I also tried adding as mentioned in the mailing list...

In sqwebmail I am getting two additional options for Mail filtering now. I have
created a vacation-type reply. i.e if address contains user's self address then
a vacation-type autoreply is generated. I saw the ./mailfilter file and since
sendmail is being used for delivering the mail (and I am using qmail) I added a
softlink in /usr/bin

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/bin/sendmail

No autoreply is being genereated and I am also not able to make out any error as
/var/log/qmail/current just contains the delivered message activity. Mail
generated by maildrop/sendmail combination is not logged here.

Is .qmail-default enough to let Qmail know about maildrop presence?

Do I have to specify in the LDAP definition that maildrop is being used?

Or is there something else wrong? How do I see the logs?

PS~ It will be nice if a search option is available on the maildrop mailing
lists... will makelife easire for novices like me!!! Alternatively all users can
maintain a discipline wherein the subject line can say a lot about the problem
rather than just 'a problem in maildrop' or 'help me'??