Re: How to make procmail create the spool dir in Maildir format?

Hi Ruud and Dallman,
many thanks for your help. The problem is solved now!!!

My delivery setup (all mail in Maildir format) :
user inbox: /var/spool/mail/Maildir/$USER
user personal folders: /home/$USER/Maildir

My config:
/etc/procmailrc
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/Maildir
DEFAULT=$LOGNAME/

The trick comes here, if a user uses ~/.procmailrc, he must put
at the begining of his .procmailrc these lines:
MAILDIR=/home/$LOGNAME/Maildir

and at the end of the hist .procmailrc he must put these 2 lines:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/Maildir
DEFAULT=$LOGNAME/

So, if the user's ~/.procmailrc match an email, it is delivered inside:
/home/$USER/Maildir
and if it does not match, it should be delivered in his inbox.

Is a litle confusing setup, so I will try to make it a litle easier on my server.

The bottom line seems to be this:
MAILDIR: the working directory of procmail, where procmail "cd" before
starting to work
DEFAULT: the default mailbox (file for mbox and directory for Maildir) where
procmail puts the email.

Thanks
Oliver


Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:

Dallman Ross wrote:

  

You should recompile procmail with DEFAULT set to "$HOME/Maildir/" .
A poor second alternative (kludge, really) is to put a line in
/etc/procmailrc such that:

   MAILDIR = $HOME/Maildir/
    

$MAILDIR should not end in a slash.


  

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