Mark Nienberg gmane@tippingmar.com writes:
Thanks. I'll study it a bit more and then test it. I get the impression that maildrop is being maintained more actively than procmail so changing now (before my new dovecot server goes into production) might be a good idea.
Definitely. procmail hasn't been touched since the now almost five-year-old v3.22 release. OTOH, the procmail maintainer is happy with the way it works with the fallthrough-behavior; and has to date always responded very quickly when I Cc:d him on some issue.
I recently discovered one thing that procmail does that maildrop can't. (CC'ing Sam Varshavchik on this one): procmail can deliver the same message to several users from the command line. I don't currently know a way do to that with maildrop without copying the message to a temporary file and running maildrop twice. Not that it matters often, the question usually crops up on the fetchmail list when people don't want to install a fully-fledged MTA.
# procmail -d foo bar -> delivers the message from stdin first to the user foo and to the user bar
# maildrop -d foo bar -> delivers to the user foo and sets the variable $1 to "bar".
-- Matthias Andree