Tom Metro writes:
I recently installed maildrop-1.5.3 (built from source w/Debian patches)
to act as a replacement for Postfix's 'virtual' LDA, and I noticed it
didn't automatically create maildirs upon initial mail deliver, as
Postfix's virtual does.
This seems like a fairly significant behavior that isn't mentioned in
the maildrop man page.
The Apache server's manual page also doesn't quite mention that Apache will
not automatically create /var/www/html for you. So?
I checked the changelog in 1.7.0 and didn't see anything relevant. (By
Why should there be anything relevant? maildrop never automatically created
home directories, or maildirs.
What seems missing from the discussion is why this functionality hasn't
made it into the core source. Are there arguments against adding this?
Because if, for some reason, an NFS mount failed here or there, maildrop wil
then go off, half-cocked, and begins creating directories and files where it
has no business doing that.
maildrop is a mail delivery agent. It delivers mail to existing mailboxes.
It does not create them. Never did, never will. That's the sysadmin's job.
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