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Maildrop - Email filter and delivery agent

Maildrop is a powerful email filter/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.

The program optionally reads filtering instructions from a file; this lets you deliver mail to alternate mailboxes or have it forwarded. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are filtered from the temporary file. Temporary files are saved in the user's home directory. If standard input is a file (not a pipe) a temporary file is not necessary.

Maildrop also checks the syntax of the mail delivery instructions the filter file, before attempting to deliver a message. If the filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without delivering the message. Users can fix typos without losing mail.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/maildrop-1.6.3.tar.bz2
Version 1.6.3 (stable) released on 2003-10-29
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

user README available in HTML format from http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/
Support contacts

Help List<courier-maildrop@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-maildrop
Developer List<courier-maildrop@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-maildrop
Bug List<courier-maildrop@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-maildrop

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Related information

Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC++

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-03-19
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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