[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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