[Workaround] r88 - trunk/sarge
chaas at torf.workaround.org
chaas at torf.workaround.org
Sat Aug 12 23:46:16 CEST 2006
Author: chaas
Date: 2006-08-12 23:46:15 +0200 (Sat, 12 Aug 2006)
New Revision: 88
Modified:
trunk/sarge/en.xml
Log:
Added section about maildrop.
Fixed the wording in the "upgrade to the new version of the tutorial" section.
Modified: trunk/sarge/en.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/sarge/en.xml 2006-07-07 17:06:26 UTC (rev 87)
+++ trunk/sarge/en.xml 2006-08-12 21:46:15 UTC (rev 88)
@@ -2231,18 +2231,55 @@
<sect1 id="migrating" xreflabel="migrating from the previous version of the tutorial">
<title>Migrating from the previous version of the tutorial</title>
<para>
- If you have already used an earlier version of this tutorial and
- want to adopt the changes then please run through these steps:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- Move your mail directories so that /home/vmail/user at domain
- becomes /home/vmail/domain/user. Sorry, there is currently
- no ready script to do it. Contributions welcome.
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ If you have already used an earlier version of this tutorial and want
+ to adopt the changes then move your mail directories so that
+ /home/vmail/user at domain becomes /home/vmail/domain/user.
+ There are scripts that help you with this task on the
+ <ulink url="http://workaround.org/moin/PostfixTutorialContributions">
+ contributions page
+ </ulink>
+ .
</para>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="using-maildrop" xreflabel="using maildrop for mail delivery">
+ <title>Server-side mail filtering using maildrop</title>
+ <para>
+ A frequently asked question from our readers deals with server-side
+ filtering. Many mail services offer to automatically sort spam emails
+ into a seperate mail folder. You may even be used to 'procmail' which
+ is a handy mail filter for local accounts on a system. Unfortunately
+ it cannot work with virtual mailboxes. Most administrators appear to
+ use 'maildrop' for this purpose. 'maildrop' is part of the Courier
+ mail server and a Debian package exists already. It will not work
+ as expected though because the 'maildrop' version in Debian/Sarge
+ does not have MySQL support compiled in. As 'maildrop' would replace
+ Postfix' built-in 'virtual' delivery agent it needed to know about
+ the location of the virtual users' mailboxes. And it needed to do
+ MySQL lookups for that purpose. If you really need this feature then
+ consider reading <ulink
+ url="http://www.xs4all.nl/~jaspersl/quota/">Jasper Slits'
+ page</ulink> on this topic. He gives instructions on how to
+ compile a 'maildrop' binary that is MySQL-enabled. It will also help
+ you configure mail quotas.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ My personal opinion on 'maildrop' is: forget about it if you can.
+ It's nearly impossible to debug and more a dirty hack than a
+ reasonable delivery agent. You may see warnings in your logs
+ that are internally a 'segmentation fault' of the program itself
+ that has just been hidden from you. Unfortunately there aren't
+ any other delivery agents as far as I know.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you are still happy with 'maildrop' then you are probably happy
+ to hear that the next stable Debian release - Codename 'Etch' - will
+ contain the new version of 'maildrop' that is using Courier's
+ 'authlib' authentication library. You won't need to compile anything
+ then.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="thanks" xreflabel="thanks to other people">
<title>Thanks</title>
@@ -2260,7 +2297,7 @@
<listitem>Daniel Wladow</listitem>
<listitem>Eicke Kemm</listitem>
<listitem>Jesper Krogh</listitem>
- <listitem>Jon Cox</listitem>
+ <listitem>Jon Cox</listitem>
<listitem>Kay-Michael Voit</listitem>
<listitem>Lucas Baltes</listitem>
<listitem>Mario Duve</listitem>
@@ -2284,7 +2321,7 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="comingsoon" xreflabel="coming soon">
- <title>Coming soon</title>
+ <title>Planned for the future</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Web mail using squirrelmail which is better than sqwebmail.
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