maildrop
mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
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Package versionmaildrop-3.1.5p0
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MaintainerGiovanni Bechis
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.
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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
${PREFIX}/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:
${PREFIX}/bin/maildrop
${PREFIX}/bin/lockmail
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