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  • From: Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Moving to Maildir
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:47:45 +1200

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OK, here is my promised query regarding making dovecot and procmail all
behaving nicely with maildir. If anyone is using maildir, could you please
show me the contents of your /etc/procmailrc (if it exists), and if you are
using maildir and dovecot, your /etc/dovecot.conf?

The setup I would like to have is an equivalent of my current mbox setup:
inbox=/var/spool/mail/username, and other folders exist in ~/.imap. The
reason for doing it this way is that if /home fills up (which happens from
time to time) mail doesn't get lost, it just ends up in the inbox.

The problems I had is that I couldn't get dovecot to see
the /var/spool/mail/username dir as the inbox, and I couldn't convince
procmail to deliver to there by default, as though it was maildir. It seemed
to be just chucking messages in there as .../MSG.xyz.

I tried with the dovecot option:
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
And the /etc/procmailrc was something like:
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/

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Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz> JabberID: <eythian AT jabber.org>

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  • [SM-Discuss] Moving to Maildir, Robin, 07/23/2004

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