sendmail and maildir format ???

[Alfred Hovdestad]

You can put

FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl

in your sendmail.mc file to generate your sendmail.cf config file.  This 
defines procmail as your local mailer agent.

Then you put

:0
    /USER.MAIL.DIRECTORY/

in /etc/procmailrc.  The trailing '/' tells procmail to use MAILDIR (man 
procmailrc).  Your mail directory can be /var/mail/username/ or 
$HOME/maildir/

You can also just specify

DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

in your /etc/procmailrc.  This sets the default mail destination to be 
the Maildir directory in the recipient's home directory in maildir format.

   Alfred



sylvan dacounha wrote:
> Thanks for ur quick reply and help..
> 
> but as u said do i need to create these . forward n .procmailrc files for each user.
> if so then ?? 
> how abt a global file
> 
> as far as spam is concerned i will be using Spamassassin with mailscanner .
> 
> how do i let sendmail know to use procmail as my LDA
> 
> i will be using dovecot as my Imap server
> 
> how will be the mail users created .. r they created as normal unix users which i have done for my earlier mail server
> 
> 
> btw  i already have  mailserver for my old existing domain...
> 
> which runs sendmail + dovecot + Spamassissan + mailscanner with normal mbox format and is working perfectly OK .
> 
> but i jus want my new mailserver have mails with maildir format as i am expecting the mails for this domain users to be huge.
> 
> Thnak and appreciate
> 
> Regards
> 
> simon
> 
>