Mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
maildrop is the mail filter/mail delivery agent that's used by the Courier Mail Server. This is a standalone build of the maildrop mail filter that can be used with other mail servers. maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop 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 optionally reads instructions from a file, which describe how to filter incoming mail. These instructions can direct maildrop to deliver the message to an alternate mailbox, or forward it somewhere else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language. maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail. 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. If the standard input to maildrop is a file, and not a pipe, a temporary file will not be necessary. maildrop checks the mail delivery instruction syntax from the filter file, before attempting to deliver a message. Unlike procmail, if the filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without delivering the message. The user can fix the typo without causing any mail to be lost.
Release | Stable | Testing |
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Fedora Rawhide | 3.1.0-4.fc40 | - |
Fedora 40 | 3.1.0-4.fc40 | - |
Fedora 39 | 3.1.0-2.fc39 | - |
Fedora 38 | 3.1.0-1.fc38 | - |
EPEL 9 | 3.0.8-1.el9 | - |
EPEL 8 | 3.0.8-1.el8 | - |
You can contact the maintainers of this package via email at
maildrop dash maintainers at fedoraproject dot org
.