On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 18:12, Soren Stoutner <
[email protected]> wrote:
I think it would be important to document this behavior if users had
reason to
believe Maildrop would work in this situation. But, as far as I can tell, Maildrop never advertises that it could be used this way.
Maildrop is often mentioned as a replacement for procmail.
Given that in the 18 years this bug report has been open, no other user
besides yourself has commented on it with the expectation that this configuration should work, my guess is that either this is a use case that nobody else has ever tried or that the current documentation is sufficient for
users to not expect that this would work.
I think that's optimistic. Few users bother to report paper-cut bugs like
this one, not least because they often get no response (not the fault of
the overworked package maintainers of course!), and especially not when
there is a workaround (in this case, to use procmail instead of maildrop). Nevertheless, it is likely that other users have faced the same problem,
and will again.
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 18:12, Soren Stoutner <<a href="mailto:
[email protected]">
[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div></div><div
class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think it would be important to document this behavior if users had reason to <br>
believe Maildrop would work in this situation. But, as far as I can tell, <br>
Maildrop never advertises that it could be used this way.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Maildrop is often mentioned as a replacement for procmail.<br></div><
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Given that in the 18 years this bug report has been open, no other user <br> besides yourself has commented on it with the expectation that this <br> configuration should work, my guess is that either this is a use case that <br> nobody else has ever tried or that the current documentation is sufficient for <br>
users to not expect that this would work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I think that's optimistic. Few users bother to report paper-cut bugs like this one,
not least because they often get no response (not the fault of the overworked package maintainers of course!), and especially not when there is a workaround (in this case, to use procmail instead of maildrop). Nevertheless, it is likely that other users
have faced the same problem, and will again.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"
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