maildrop

mail delivery agent with filtering abilities (set-GID=mail)

maildrop is a mail delivery agent (MDA), a program which reads a mail message from standard input and then delivers the message to your mailbox. maildrop can deliver mail both in mbox and maildir storing formats. It can read instructions from a file, directing it how to log deliveries, and how to filter incoming mail, for example to deliver mail to alternate mailboxes, or forward it somewhere else, or pipe it through external programs. It performs all the same functions as procmail, but unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language which is a bit easier on the eyes. Other differences from procmail include not skipping syntax errors in filter files (instead deferring the mails for later processing) and being more resource-efficient when processing mails (not loading large messages right into memory). maildrop in this package sets its permission to "rwxr-sr-x" (set-GID) and is owned by "root:mail". maildrop also comes with the following additional programs: * reformail, an e-mail reformatting tool, which can detect duplicate messages, manipulate message headers, split mailboxes into individual messages, and generate autoreply messages * maildirmake, which creates maildirs, and maildir folders * deliverquota, which delivers mail to maildirs while taking account software-imposed quotas * reformime, a utility for reformatting MIME messages * makemime, which creates MIME-formatted messages of arbitrary complexity * lockmail, which creates dot-locks, file locks, and C-Client folder locks * mailbot, a MIME-aware autoresponder utility

courier-maildrop

Courier mail server - mail delivery agent

The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. The maildrop program is a local mail delivery agent. it reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to the mailbox. It is able to deliver mail to mbox-style mailboxes and Maildirs. It will optionally read instructions from a file, which describes how to filter incoming mail, using a structured filtering language. This package is intended for use along with sqwebmail. Otherwise, use the standalone maildrop package.