Maildrop is an open-source email filtering utility that is compatible with various mail transfer agents. It can be configured to sort incoming mails into specific categories, such as spam, personal, work, and others.
This tutorial will walk you through the installation of Maildrop on MXLinux latest version.
Before installing Maildrop, update your system’s package list and upgrade any installed packages to their latest versions using the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Maildrop depends on several packages for its functionality, some of which are not installed by default on MXLinux. To install them, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libpcre3-dev libxml2-dev libstemmer-dev cmake build-essential
Download the Maildrop source code from GitLab using git clone command.
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/markbeeson/maildrop.git
Navigate to the maildrop directory
$ cd maildrop/
Create a build directory
$ mkdir build
Navigate to the build directory
$ cd build
Use cmake to configure the build environment.
$ cmake ..
Compile the source code and install Maildrop on the system
$ make && sudo make install
You can verify if Maildrop has been successfully installed by running the following command:
$ maildrop -v
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed Maildrop on MXLinux. You can now configure your Mailtransfer agent to use Maildrop for email filtering.
We hope this tutorial has been useful. If you encounter any issues or have any queries, feel free to consult the MXLinux documentation or contact the Maildrop community for support.
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