I'm trying to implement maildrop in a qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail/qmailadmin environment, but there are things about maildrop that I just can't parse in my feeble mind, despite reading all the docs, man pages and much of these archives (ugh, no archive search engine?). I've googled, read LWQ, but I'm still clueless.

First, I'm trying to use maildrop as a replacement MDA with qmail. All the docs say this is doable, but no instructions exist to do it (although both INSTALL and README tell you how to do it with Sendmail). I did manage to grock the following:

In config.h set:

#define DEFAULT_DEF "./Maildir/"

the only change to configure I did was:

--enable-sendmail=/var/qmail/bin/sendmail

Everything built and installed fine, and I can call maildrop in .qmail files, but this is not my idea of a "drop in replacement MDA". How does qmail know to use maildrop for local deliveries?

INSTALL also says:

* /usr/local/share/maildrop/scripts - A number of Perl and shell scripts will be installed here, <snip>

No, they aren't installed there, or anywhere I can find. In fact, the only thing under /usr/local/share/maildrop/ are the html-ized man pages.

While I'm ranting, a sample maildroprc file would be nice. I've found a very few maildrop recipes, but does a comprehensive list of examples exist anywhere?

Thanks in advance,