Postfix/Dovecot/Procmail/Maildir

[Lars E. Pettersson]

On 01/04/2005 11:02 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> What I want is to configure this by the system, not user by user. 

The following is from my /etc/procmailrc file (and it works with 
postfix, procmail, and dovecot)

With this setup all mails will go into ~/Maildir in maildir format.

Take a look at http://www.sm6rpz.se/mailserver.html for some more 
information about my setup (at the moment it is a bit dated, i.e. use 
the procmailscript below)

---- part of /etc/procmailrc begins ----
#
# $Id: procmailrc,v 1.6 2004/12/11 11:20:23 root Exp $
#

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Run with the recipients privileges
#
DROPPRIVS=yes
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Set up so that sendmail/Postfix/etc. deliver to Maildir directories. The
# Maildir directory does not have to exist, it will be created if needed.
#
# Side note: The best thing is actually to add
#
# #define MAILSPOOLHOME "/Maildir/"
#
# to the config.h file of the procmail source code, and skip this very
# file altogether. But if you do not want to recompile procmail, the
# following will do the thing for you (although it may look ugly for those
# who prefer to recompile procmail.)
#

# To get maildir delivery
#
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

# Make sure that $HOME/Maildir/ exist!
#
:0
* ? /usr/bin/test -d $DEFAULT || /bin/mkdir $DEFAULT
{ }
:0 E
{
         # Bail out if directory could not be created
         EXITCODE=127
         HOST=bail.out
}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Change to DEFAULT directory
#
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
---- part of /etc/procmailrc ends ----

Lars
-- 
Lars E. Pettersson <lars at homer.se>
http://www.sm6rpz.se/