procmailrc

davidsrsb · 06-03-2005, 04:00 AM

I have sendmail working with uucp as remote transport and popa3d on Slackware 10.1. I have installed courier-imap. I am trying to move from a mbox to a maildir setup

Now a couple of questions:

I need a procmailrc file to get the local transport to use the maildirs. Where do I put it?

Do I have to create the maildirs manually and if so what is the ownership?

I copied the imapd.dist file to imapd and so on. Is this correct? The man pages and notes just talk about compile time options.

davidsrsb · 06-03-2005, 05:22 AM

Heavy use og Google and reading files gets me:
1) /etc/procmailrc
sendmail.cf by default is already calling procmail and not mail.local

2) Maildirs in the /home/user/maildir form (qmail at least) must be owned by their parent user

davidsrsb · 06-03-2005, 07:01 AM

Procmail is doing something and delivering mail to /home/david/Maildir
In the directory I see with ls -l:
from root mail
msg.N david david
cur/ david david
new/ "
tmp/ "

The email client fails to collect or see anything.
The courier pop3d process is running but does not seem to have a proper login chat
pop3d has MAILPATHDIR=Maildir
Should this be ~/Maildir or $HOME/Maildir

davidsrsb · 06-15-2005, 11:07 AM

The problem turned out to be that for procmail (and spambayes) the trigger that the mail is stored in maildir, not mbox, format is the trailing slash on the directory name.
So:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/ <---
is correct