Hello, Christian Boltz wrote:
Then the solver choose the wrong alternative ;-)
AFAIK maildrop "just" needs some helper programs (deliverquota and maildirmake) that are provided in the maildrop-maildirutils package. Try installing this package, then install maildrop. It will only pull in courier-authlib, but shouldn't install the entire courier packages.
Unfortunately maildrop-maildirutils can only be found in the server:mail/openSUSE_11.3 repo and in some home-repos. I think, maildrop is an alternative to procmail. But I think, the package maildrop-maildirutils should go into the main repositories for openSUSE 11.4. Otherwise most people will not see it.
That said: If you want/have to switch from procmail to something more recent and more maintained, I'd recommend dovecot deliver because deliver uses sieve which is a standardized language. IIRC there are even some tools that help mouse users to "write" filter rules.
BTW: Dovecot is under heavier development compared to courier (which seems to be more in maintenance mode [1]) and has more features, although the feature list probably affects more the POP3/IMAP side of dovecot and isn't too interesting when you only want to filter your mails ;-)
Some users would probably not be happy with Sieve-capable MDAs like Dovecot deliver. I am not sure, but I believe that it is not or not easy to call external helper programs and scripts within Sieve. The procmail2sieve.pl script (from http://www.dovecot.org/tools/procmail2sieve.pl) completely ignores external helpers. Currently I use several external helper programs and scripts in my .procmailrc file: * formail to eliminate duplicate mails * formail for header manipulations (e.g. fixing incorrect "Content-Type" headers) * sed and grep used by an whitelist * clamscan (replaced by milter-clamav) * spamc for Spamassassin spam filtering * an own script for processing FreeBSD CVSUP mails * an own program for forwarding mails to an external IMAP server Sure, most of these external helpers can be replaced with other Server side techniques. But probably not all helpers can be replaced. So, for me "maildrop" is an "procmail" alternative, because it supports external helper programs. Björn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org