Your message dated Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:55:28 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#741158: maildrop in 'Manual mode' does *not* read
/etc/maildroprc
has caused the Debian Bug report #741158,
regarding maildrop in 'Manual mode' does *not* read /etc/maildroprc
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Package: maildrop
Version: 2.7.1-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
When calling maildrop with
maildrop ~/.mailfilters/local
it doesn't read /etc/maildroprc, so I have to set $DEFAULT and $SENDMAIL
again. maildrop(1) states in the section DESCRIPTION:
Manual mode
A file containing filtering instructions - filename is specified
as an argument to the maildrop command. maildrop reads this
filename (after /etc/maildroprc) and follows the instructions in
it. Unless the message is explicitly forwarded, bounced, deleted,
or delivered to a specific mailbox, it will be delivered to the
user's system mailbox.
but later in the section DELIVERY MODE
Note
/etc/maildroprc is read only in delivery mode.
Kind regards,
Andrei
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages maildrop depends on:
ii courier-authlib 0.66.1-1
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-12
ii libpcre3 1:8.31-2
ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16
Versions of packages maildrop recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.0-1+b1
maildrop suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/maildroprc changed:
DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir"
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
-- no debconf information
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On Saturday, November 29, 2025 9:37:36 AM Mountain Standard Time Andrei
POPESCU wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's been a long time since I stopped using maildrop, it would be
> quite difficult to try to reproduce it now (none of my systems has an
> MTA installed).
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 at 00:13, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thank you for your bug report. I have recently taken over maintenance of
> > the
> > maildrop package. I apologize that nobody responded to your bug report in
a
> > timely manner. Can you confirm if this bug still exists with the current
> > version of the maildrop package (3.1.8-3)?
Thanks for the followup information. I am going to close this bug report
under the assumption that it has been fixed upstream in the intervening years.
If anyone is still experiencing this issue, feel free to reopen the bug
report.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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