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maildrop package

  1. Bug #102947
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 102947

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Josip Rodin (joy) wrote : Re: [Bug 102947] Re: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:56:54PM -0000, foolishchild wrote:
> The fix is easy:
> - sudo aptitude purge maildrop
> - download the maildrop tar.bz2 from http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#maildrop
> - follow the install instructions
> - sudo aptitude install libpcre3-dev
> - ./configure
> - ./make
> - ./make install-strip
> - ./make install-doc
> - change .fetchmailrc to use /usr/local/bin/maildrop instead of /usr/bin/maildrop
>
> There are two packages in the repositories; maildrop and courier-
> maildrop. maildrop has been (in my opinion erroneously) compiled with
> courier-auth support, and courier-authlib has been made a pre-req. That
> may well have needed to be done for courier-maildrop, but I don't think
> it should be done for standalone maildrop.

*sigh* The fix would actually be to make your fetchmail stop annoying you
by interpreting all stderr output as an error. courier-auth support isn't
harming your delivery here, it's only making your delivery agent complain
for no apparent reason. Fix *that*.

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