Monthly Archives: November 2013

maildrop

maildrop is the mail filter/mail delivery agent that’s used by the Courier Mail Server. You do not need to download maildrop from here if you already have the Courier mail server installed. This is a standalone build of the maildrop mail filter that can be used with other mail servers.

maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. maildrop reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message to your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style mailboxes, and maildirs. “maildir” is a mailbox format used by the Courier mail server and Qmail.

maildrop optionally reads instructions from a file, which describe how to filter incoming mail. These instructions can direct maildrop to deliver the message to an alternate mailbox, or forward it somewhere else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.

maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail. However, it uses resources much more efficiently. Unlike procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message into memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are filtered from the temporary file. If the standard input to maildrop is a file, and not a pipe, a temporary file will not be necessary.

maildrop checks the mail delivery instruction syntax from the filter file, before attempting to deliver a message. Unlike procmail, if the filter file contains syntax errors, maildrop terminates without delivering the message. The user can fix the typo without causing any mail to be lost.

grub partitions

Grub designation Meaning Usual designation
(hd0) First hard disk /dev/sda (or /dev/vda)
(hd1) Second hard disk /dev/sdb (or /dev/vdb)
(hd0,0) First hard disk, first partition /dev/sda1 (or /dev/vda1)
(hd1,0) Second hard drive, first partition /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/vdb1)
(hd1,1) Second hard drive, second partition /dev/sdb2 (or /dev/vdb2)

remove the BIOS FakeRAID metadata

Installing Centos you can see some error like: Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets. Ignoring disk sdb

dmraid -r -E /dev/sda

if this not helps so:

mdadm –zero-superblock /dev/sda

Hard way:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 seek=$(( $(blockdev –getsz /dev/sda) – 1024 )) count=1024