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advice on changing to maildir format as regards procmail

2002-08-29 12:27:03
Hello,

I run a small mailserver on RedHat 6.1, with sendmail 8.9.3 and procmail
3.21 as LDA. Mail is delivered to $HOME/.mail, with qpopper as pop3
server. There is no /etc/.procmailrc (for reasons I don't remember, I
had trouble getting a global .procmailrc to work on my system) but an
individual .procmailrc in each home directory.

I want to try and migrate to IMAP, but would appreciate any pointers (or
referral to a faq etc) on my plan. Which is:

Retain sendmail as MTA and use courier-imap for imap/pop3 server.

I understand there may be some problems with procmail 3.21 delivering to
maildir format, so I should use 3.22?

I believe I need to add the line #define MAILSPOOLHOME "/Maildir/"
to authenticate.c file before compilation - but should that be
/.Maildir/ if I'm using Courier?

The individual .procmailrc files all start with DEFAULT=$HOME/.mail
so presumably this needs to be amended - but do recipes beginning :0:
all need the second colon removing or will they still work on maildir
format as is?

I understand there are some utilities around for converting the old mbox
to maildir format, but I only have a dozen users so it's not a major
issue.

Any tips or comments would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Peter Rose
London UK



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