mbox maildir

[Jonathan McLoughlin]

Are you suggesting I edit main.cf and place

home_mailbox = /home/yourlogin/.maildir

i want this to operate for more than 1user


On 05/03/06, Rob Blomquist <rob at robandmegan.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 March 2006 21:28, Jonathan McLoughlin so eloquently stated:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to begin using the email and have configure postfix+procmail
> >
> > At present procmail is delivering mail to /var/mail and it is in the mbox
> > format I want to get it to deliver in the maildir format to $HOME/.maildir
> >
> > How is this possible?
> >
> > I have added
> > home_mailbox = Maildir/
> > to postfix/main.cf however it continues to deliver to /var/mail/
>
> It is quite possible, but awhile ago, I was running this way, and let my mail
> reader (KMail) grab my mail from /var/mail. No biggie.
>
> If you really want it delivered elsewhere, then you must use the complete
> path: I think you mean, /home/yourlogin/.maildir, not $HOME, as when postfix
> is running it should be running as root, so $HOME is /var/mail.
>
> Rob
>
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