Hi all,

I'm having some problems filtering mail using maildrop as a pipe through exim. I've looked through google and found some documentation, but haven't been able to get it to work. I'm running Debian woody, with exim 3.36 and maildrop 1.4 (I think -- dunno where the --version option is on maildrop).

Here's my exim.conf transport and director:

# This transport is used for maildrop (which has a nicer syntax) maildrop_pipe: driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${local_part}" return_path_add delivery_date_add envelope_to_add check_string = "From " escape_string = ">From " user = $local_part group = mail

# This director runs procmail for users who have a .mailfilter file maildrop: driver = localuser transport = maildrop_pipe require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.mailfilter:+/usr/bin/maildrop no_verify headers_add = "Delivered-To: ${local_part}@${domain}"

and here are the errors I get:

2002-09-09 15:43:30 17oXFi-0007Kg-00 == wsar...@tersesystems.com <wi...@tersesystems.com> T=maildrop_pipe defer (0): Child process of maildrop_pipe transport returned 75 (could mean temporary error) from command: /usr/bin/maildrop

I don't know where maildrop logs to, so I tried enabling the -V -M options on the transport, and then I tried "maildrop >> /tmp/maildrop.log" as another option. I'm still not really sure what's wrong. The only message I ever got going to maildrop.log was one that I forced in from the command line with

/usr/sbin/maildrop < make.money.fast

which worked fine, but still didn't explain why exim wasn't processing it. I made sure that maildrop was sending to the Maildir directory because I'm using Courier-IMAP, and I made the Maildir directory with maildirmake and made sure it was chmod 700.

My /etc/maildroprc:

logfile "/tmp/maildrop.log"

log "========"

# Uncomment this line to make maildrop default to ~/Maildir for # delivery- this is where courier-imap (amongst others) will look. DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/" MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/"

I'm stumped.

Will.