Maildrop doesn't filter or log filters

Quoted 11 lines · Chris Rose

Here's how i have things: I'm using postfix as a local MTA, and it's calling maildrop with
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop

I have only one user that receives mail on my system, and that user account has/d a ~/.mailfilter file. The problem is, whenever that file exists, no mail whatsoever makes it into my Maildir. I've tested this - i send a message to myself, and i receive nothing as long as there's a mailfilter file existing. As soon as i rename it, i'm fine.

What are the permissions on the .mailfilter file, they must be 0600. I had problems like this and this caused problems similar

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Quoted 11 lines · Chris Rose

Here's how i have things: I'm using postfix as a local MTA, and it's calling maildrop with
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop

I have only one user that receives mail on my system, and that user account has/d a ~/.mailfilter file. The problem is, whenever that file exists, no mail whatsoever makes it into my Maildir. I've tested this - i send a message to myself, and i receive nothing as long as there's a mailfilter file existing. As soon as i rename it, i'm fine.

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What are the permissions on the .mailfilter file, they must be 0600. I had problems like this and this caused problems similar

Look in your mail logs / syslogs. Postfix / Maildrop is usualy pretty good about telling you what the problem is.

Quoted 17 lines · James Turnbull

Quoted 15 lines · [email protected] wrote:

Quoted 11 lines · Chris Rose

Here's how i have things: I'm using postfix as a local MTA, and it's calling maildrop with
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop

I have only one user that receives mail on my system, and that user account has/d a ~/.mailfilter file. The problem is, whenever that file exists, no mail whatsoever makes it into my Maildir. I've tested this - i send a message to myself, and i receive nothing as long as there's a mailfilter file existing. As soon as i rename it, i'm fine.

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What are the permissions on the .mailfilter file, they must be 0600. I had problems like this and this caused problems similar

Look in your mail logs / syslogs. Postfix / Maildrop is usualy pretty good about telling you what the problem is.

I cannot comment about Postfix as I never used it but Maildrop will not write to a log file if there is a permissions problem.

Sean
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Speaking from experience (sorry, should have posted my found fix on this a while ago), maildrop may not log that itself, but in the /var/log/maillog file you can find its output to stderr that indicated a permissions problem. Once i found this, all of it fell into place.

sean