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OpenSMTPD and Maildrop working in concert

What we really liked about this project was how opinionated it was, how well the documentation was crafted, and how packed the mailing list was with years of helpful solutions.

The Courier Mail Server comes with many programs, and thankfully, if you already have an MTA that you lean on but still wanted to use some of their fancy tooling, that will be fine. In our case, we wanted to use maildrop(1), which when installed on OpenBSD, comes with a handful of filtering options, the Mail Delivery Agent ( MDA), some MIME building programs, etc. Lastly, a dirty solution to start the daemon at startup can be achieved by prepending a line to root’s crontab(1), as follows:

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