I know this must be a faq, but after reading through the man pages,
README, INSTALL and examples/advanced and the faqs, I didn't find the
answer I was looking for. It seems that 99% of all procmail documentation
is concerened with how to use procmail as an end-user, not so much with
building and installing it.
What I want to do is install a LDA in a sendmail system and, by default,
for all mail to be delivered in maildir format in each users'
$HOME directory. After looking around it seems that procmail and maildrop
are candidates for this type of setup (I haven't got around to testing
maildrop because I haven't found as much documentation). The one
additional requirement I would like is to do all of this without having a
.procmailrc file in each users' directory.
Like I said earlier I have been reading through various sources trying
to figure out how to do this. The INSTALL doc says to reference the
examples/advanced file, examples/advanced says to edit the SYSTEM_MBOX
value in the config.h file, config.h says you can't change the
SYSTEM_MBOX here but to edit src/authenticate.c, and authenticate.c
doesn't give any info on how to make the changes I want.
The procmail quick start guide does talk about naming conventions used for
mh, mbox and maildir style mailboxes, but all examples are on a per user
basis i.e ~/.procmailrc files. From all this reading, it seems that if I
want to change the default behavior of procmail to store mail in the
users' directory in maildir format without the need for a procmailrc file
I'd change the following in src/authenticate.c:
MAILSPOOLDIR not sure what to with this one
MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "/" to make default mailbox format maildir
MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /maildir if I wnat all mail to be delivered
to $HOME/maildir, /.maildir if I am using courier
imap
iDoes this look correct? Any help would be appriciated at this point.
Thanks.
Aaron
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