mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
Project homepage: http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
Description
maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. It
reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message
to your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style
mailboxes, and maildirs.
maildrop will optionally read instructions from a file, which
describes how to filter incoming mail. Instructions can be provided
having mail delivered to alternate mailboxes, or forwarded somewhere
else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail
in compiled form. However, it uses resources much more efficiently.
Unlike procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message
into memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are
filtered from the temporary file.
Package information
- Ports path
- mail/maildrop,postfix
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@openbsd.org>
- Categories
- Available flavors
- postfix, no_trashquota
- Only for architectures
- aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
Library
Runtime
Build
OpenBSD README
+----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Running maildrop on OpenBSD +----------------------------------------------------------------------- Maildrop must be run as the uid/gid of the user whose mailbox it is delivering to. Therefore, if the MTA does not spawn it with the correct uid/gid, it needs to be suid root to perform the operation itself. The port is installed with the suid bit stripped by default. This works out-of-the-box with MTAs like qmail, which spawn maildrop with the correct uid/gid it needs to perform the delivery. For more information, please read the documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/maildrop/INSTALL. It should be safe to enable the suid bits, but scan over the code first and satisfy yourself that there are no security holes. If you perform a full audit, please inform <ports@openbsd.org> and the suid bit may then be enabled by default. The following files will need suid re-enabled if you so choose: /usr/local/bin/maildrop /usr/local/bin/lockmail