Can sendmail deliver to maildir instead of mailbox
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jun 4 20:18:58 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 22:14 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm not proven on sendmail configuration.
>
> I would like to configure sendmail for local delivery in maildir format
> instead of mailbox.
>
> This is because I use fetchmail as daemon, and evolution as mail reader.
> Problem is that I don't use automatic recovery on evolution because I
> think that this can conflict with eventualy fetching process on the same
> mbox file.
>
> Evo will remove read mail, and sendmail will add new mail. This is not
> good if it appens on the same time.
>
> If it is not possible, I can choose to change sendmail with postfix or
> qmail, but I don't know how.
Sendmail doesn't actually "deliver" the mail at all. In Fedora, by
default it sub-contracts this job to procmail, and procmail can deliver
to a variety of mail formats, including maildir. A sample ~/.procmailrc
would be:
:0
/path/to/mail/delivery/dir
See "man procmailrc".
Paul.
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