#596057 build maildrop and SGID-roor courier-maildrop

Package:
maildrop
Source:
maildrop
Description:
mail delivery agent with filtering abilities (set-GID=mail)
Submitter:
Johannes Bunte
Date:
2025-08-22 15:05:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#596057#5
Date:
2010-09-08 10:58:22 UTC
From:
To:
I have a virtual mailuser setup with MySQL backend. Courier and postfix are running correctly, courier-maildrop uses courier-authlib and gets the correct information. The user owning the mail is vmail (uid=2000).
Mail is delivered correctly when maildrop is called from any other user than vmail. But if it is called as vmail (either by sudo -u vmail -i or by postfix's user=vmail option in master.cf), it deliveres all mail to ~/Maildir, which is not the designated mailbox transmitted by authlib.

I don't know what the problem is, but on the debian-user-list I got the hint that maybe geteuid() was correct instead of getuid(). As I'm not good in C, I did not try it out.

#596057#14
Date:
2017-12-24 01:06:42 UTC
From:
To:
control: forcemerge -1 818377

Hi,

This seems to be reassigned from courier-maildrop to maildrop.

It should have stayed there as http://bugs.debian.org/822683

Considering http://bugs.debian.org/818377 , I am merging to this bug.
(No point pushing bugs between these package any more)

Regards,

Osamu

#596057#25
Date:
2025-08-22 15:03:49 UTC
From:
To:
I have recently taken over maintenance of the maildrop package.  My intention
is to eventually reintroduce the courier-maildrop package, but first I need to
get all of the courier packages into shape, which might take a while.