On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 12:49, Marc Hultquist wrote:

What you are looking specifically is something completely different, than what maildrop is.

- maildrop is a filtering agent yes. - these filters can be applied global or on a pr. user base

maildrop does not (by itself) provide quarantines etc. It is only intended to react on mail content and filter it accordingly, like moving it to a folder, executing a script, forwarding the mail or bounce it.

You can realise quarantining, tdma like features etc., but that would require programming from your side.

Maildrop is only the basic framework, and there is no finished product/control-panel etc. that provides this.

sqwebmail provides a interface to maildrop rules, thought against the single user and mainly to move mails to certain folders or forward them, vacation notice etc.

I did some scripts, that generate maildrop rules files from sql database content, which would make it easier to write a webfrontend in php or alike to maildrop (http://www.marlow.dk/postfix)

In ISPWorks (http://www.ispworks.org) i've started to add a tdma alike plugin that uses maildrop.

But i doubt that these are suitable for your qmail setup.

Basically end of story: maildrop will provide you with a powerful filtering language, that allows you to develop, what you want to archieve, but there is no finished solution like what you are looking for, that i'm aware of. I haven't seen many people using maildrop in a qmail setup yet, most of them are using postfix or the courier-mta.

Actually what you are looking at sounds more like the combination of amavisd-new (http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/), spamassassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/) and Maia Mailguard (http://www.renaissoft.com/projects/maia/)

Which would allow you to filter virus, spam, use white/blacklists and manage everything system, domain or user-wide on your system with maia mailguard.

I have never tried to use Maia Mailguard, since i have my own management system, but it looks like it should do the job for you.