Re: Setting up Courier-IMAP at Home

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting David Raeker-Jordan <rkrjrdn@epix.net>:
> Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting David Raeker-Jordan <rkrjrdn@epix.net>:
> > > 
> > > Currently, I use fetchmail to get my email from my ISP. Fetchmail passes the
> > > mail to procmail, which uses a few rules and spamassasin to sort the mail
> > > into folders. I use exim, but I am afraid I am a bit fuzzy as to
> > > its role in delivering incoming mail. Does procmail pass the mail to exim,
> > > or does procmail deliver the mail it sorts?
> > >
> > 
> > Procmail delivers the mail it sorts.  It can accept mail directly from
> > fetchmail or fetchmail can hand the mail to exim.  And exim hands it
> > to procmail.
> 
> If fetchmail hands-off to procmail, and procmail delivers the mail, then how
> does procmail know to deliver in Maildir format (or even mbox format, for
> that matter)
> 

You will have to read the procmail docs for this.  I use Maildrop
instead.  I expect that you create the maildir directories and put a
slash on the end of the path in procmail's config file.  There is a
program, maildirmake, that will create the maildir folders, or you can
create them by hand.  It may be in courier-maildrop package.

HTH,
  Jeffrey