RE: switching to maildir from mbox

[François THOMAS <francoist@alsdesign.fr>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Dragos [mailto:dragos.delcea@farmexim.ro]
> Envoyé : mardi 27 novembre 2001 13:05
> À : debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Objet : switching to maildir from mbox
>
>
> Hello,
> I have a new debian (woody) system and I would like to make the
> delivery of
> mail to default to maildir (eg: /home/joe/Maildir) instead of
> /var/spool/mail/joe;
> I have the maildirmake program, so I can create the maildirs (I
> can do it by
> hand anyway), but how do I tell the system to do the delivery to maildir;
> I have postfix installed here (procmail too).
> what steps should I take?

You should have something like:
home_mailbox = Maildir/
in your main.cf... The ending "/" is needed to tell postfix to use Maildir
format instead of a flat mbox file.
More info here:
http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#maildir
Hope this helps..
Regards
François