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Re: Quick question (possibly a faq)...

2001-05-18 04:13:28
Aaron Jackson <ajackson(_at_)tcba(_dot_)com> writes:
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 concerned with how to use procmail as an end-user, not
so much with building and installing it.

Hmm, you're right: the documentation in the source tree needs to be
updated with more config notes.


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 want all mail to be delivered
                       to $HOME/maildir, /.maildir if I am using
                       courier imap

Does this look correct?  Any help would be appreciated at this point.
Thanks.

You have them all correct.  You can ignore MAILSPOOLDIR as it's ignored
if MAILSPOOLHOME is defined.


Philip Guenther
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