On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:06 pm, François THOMAS wrote: > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Dragos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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