Re: changing postfix to use qmails Mailbox system?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:26:14PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> Sorry, I thought by the subject you wanted to use qmails mailbox format,
> which I took to be Maildir.
:D yup that's the preferred format fro qmail author, but still lots of
people used the qmail legacy stuff, to have things easier with normal
MUA...
> Not dirty at all... when you install exim or postfix debconf asks you "do
> you want to use procmail for delivery", and the default is "yes". Most sites
> are probably using it without even knowing. All this does is configure
> procmail to default to Maildir instead of mbox.
true, i use procmail also by default, but only to deliver specific
stuff, not the default case... anyway...
> which postfix config options are you playing with?
home_mailbox = Mailbox
in main.cf
> I wasn't sure at the time that postfix alone could do Maildir. Most other
> documents on postfix+Maildir use some other delivery software.
true, but not really satisfactory....
> Looking at the postfix configuration stuff again, it seems there are options
> in there to configure it to do it. I wonder why most people use something
> else?
cause everyone else does it that way? new stuff allways seems to have
problems getting through.... :D
> Certainly, using procmail is painless and allows users to use procmail to
> customise the delivery themselves. If you configure postfix for Maildir
> _and_ use procmail, I think you still need to have a /etc/procmailrc because
> (from the config file docs) there doesn't seem to be any other way that
> postfix can tell procmail what the DEFAULT delivery is.
ahhh so procmail is in fact the ultimate problem??
> No, that's not the way it works. Procmail will deliver to the DEFAULT
> location if there are no procmailrc files (or these files don't specify
> somewhere else). If you use procmail for delivery, it always handles the
> delivery...
arghhh..... if i could do it painlessly, i would revert to deliver...
that at least was a nice and straighforward system... :(
> perhaps that is what is screwing you up? you have configured postfix to
seems so....
> deliver to ~/mailbox _and_ use procmail, and procmail is catching it and
> putting it all in /var/spool/mail.
yep, set it that way, that was the problem... :(
> In any case, I believe you should be able to achieve what you want by
> creating a /etc/procmailrc that specifies where you want the mail to go.
yup
> The other things on the wiki page are still important... they attempt to
> tell your system where the default mailbox location is, so that other
> programs know where to look. Unfortunately, many applications just assume
> /var/spool/mail, so even this doesn't fix everything.
yep, but i allready customized my whole system np!
i have still lots of systems running qmail, so i am used to it ;)
anyway thanks for the help!
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