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[jean-Noël Chardron <Jean-Noel.Chardron AT dr15.cnrs.fr>]

hello, 

robin wrotes this message in July 2004 :

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?

I Have not /etc/procmailrc but $Home/.procmailrc

===========this is my .procmailrc ================

PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:
MAILDIR = /mail/mail2/chardron
# note the "/" at the end  for the maildir format
DEFAULT = $MAILDIR/
LOGFILE = $HOME/.logfile

## testing with joe #################
:0:
* ^From.*joe*
.joe/

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
.SPAM/

# All mail tagged as spam (eg. with a score higher than the set threshold)
# is moved to "probably-spam".
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
.SPAM/

# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in "From"
# to be dropped.  This will re-add it.
:0
* ^^rom[ ]
{
 LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "

 :0 fhw
 | sed -e '1s/^/F/'
}

=====================end of .procmailrc ==================

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/

===========================

My Question :

I am interresting in the same way, 
did you find a solution for this ?
(in Maildir format with Inbox in //var/spool/mail and personnal folder in  
~/.imap/)

thanks


jean noel