Maildrop
| maildrop | |
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| Basic data
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| developer | Double Precision Inc. |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| Current version | 2.9.0 (June 23, 2017) |
| operating system | Unix , Linux |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | Mail filter |
| License | GPL |
| German speaking | No |
| www.courier-mta.org/maildrop | |
Mail Drop is a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) and mail filter for mail servers , known as MDA of the Courier mail server originated, but for use with other Mail Transfer Agents and Message Stores is also available separately and for this purpose next Maildir and mbox supported.
Maildrop can filter e-mails based on various properties, such as:
- Return address
- addressee
- Subject line
- Content of the email
- Spam (in conjunction with spam detection programs such as SpamAssassin )
Maildrop is often used as an alternative to procmail because it is also actively maintained and, in contrast to procmail, supports a far more powerful and understandable syntax that is similar to that of Perl . For example, maildrop supports very powerful branches using if – elseif – else .
example
The following example for one $HOME/.mailfilterforwards incoming emails to SpamAssassin and then sorts them according to the flags.
if ( $SIZE < 262144 )
{
xfilter "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
}
if (/^X-Spam-Status: *YES/)
{
to "Maildir/.Spam"
}
else
{
to "Maildir/"
}
Explanation: The first thing to do is to check whether the message is smaller than 256 kB (262144 bytes) in order not to overload SpamAssassin with messages that are too large. If it meets the size criterion, it is now passed on to SpamAssassin via the command xfiltervia pipe . It then checks whether SpamAssassin has marked the message as spam ( X-Spam-Flag: YES). In this case the message will be sorted into the folder .Spamin the maildir , otherwise it will be delivered to the maildir as normal.