Re: switching to maildir from mbox
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:06 pm, François THOMAS wrote:
> > -----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
thanks for your answer, François.
is seems it needs more tweaking, mail still ends in /var/spool/mail/joe;
procmail uses the $MAIL env variable (I think), and I don't know where it
gets set...maybe /etc/login.defs...?
I get a closer look at the system...
cheers, dragos
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