On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 21:50, Volker Sauer wrote: > I'v seen there's an option in postfix to make it use Maildir: > > # DELIVERY TO MAILBOX > # > # The home_mailbox parameter specifies the optional pathname of a > # mailbox file relative to a user's home directory. The default > # mailbox file is /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user. Specify > # "Maildir/" for qmail-style delivery (the / is required). > # > #home_mailbox = Mailbox > #home_mailbox = Maildir/ > > Do I understand it right and I just set home_Mailbox=Maildir/ and > postfix will deliver to ~/Maildir in Maildir-format!? (Is it really tjat > easy!?)
Yes, it really is that easy. I currently run bincimap on three servers. Two of them also run Courier-IMAP as a backup on a different IP address. I use the IMAPdir mail folder structure and have the following in main.cf, home_mailbox = .maildir/ This delivers all incoming mail to .maildir/ in each user's home directory. This works just great for me. I also use, mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -t To put mail through procmail filters on one of my mail servers. I then set the following up in each users home directory and /etc/skel, cd ~user mkdir .mail cd .mail ln -s ../.maildir INBOX cd .. chown -R user.users .mail* Works great for me. You can also use 'maildirmake .maildir' to make the initial maildir folder, and the perl scripts available to convert mbox files as I did. I initially migrated from sendmail to postfix and Courier-IMAP. I was dissatisfied with Courier's handling of folder names when I found binc. Been using it ever since - I am thinking of removing Courier-IMAP altogether. There are even ebuilds for Gentoo for it now too. I hope this is of some help to you. Marcus
