Re: Running a dovecot IMAPS server

[Mark Knoop <mark opus11 net>]

Andy Green wrote:
> I was learning how to use procmail the other day with Dovecot, which I
> wrote up here
> 
> http://warmcat.com/_wp/?p=37#more-37
> 
> What I found was that sticking the mail files into <Dovecot
> store>/.<foldername>/new caused Dovecot to understand that new mail had
> come (which it then seemed to copy into .<foldername>/<something else>
> so they weren't new any more but part of the folder).  <Dovecot Store>
> might be something like ~/Maildir for the current users' mail.

Actually, the *correct* way to use Maildir with procmail is just to have
a trailing slash on the foldername, e.g.:

# fedora-list
:0
* ^X-BeenThere *fedora-list redhat com
.INBOX.lists.fedora/

The trailing slash tells procmail that it's delivering to a Maildir and
it will put the message in 'new/'. That way you don't need to use a
lockfile.

-- 
Mark Knoop