Delivering to Maildir with procmail (Was 'Re: Running a dovecot IMAPS server')

Mark Knoop mark at opus11.net
Tue Sep 18 08:12:27 UTC 2007


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Mark Knoop wrote:
> 
>> 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 at 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.
> 
> But where in the dovecot documentation does it say that you should do this?
> What does .INBOX mean?

It doesn't. This is a procmail recipe.

-- 
Mark Knoop




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