On Monday 15 July 2002 06:31 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> You need filesystem quotas for Maildir, the MTA cannot enforce quotas
> under Maildir.
> (It can enforce quotas under mbox, but mbox has a different set of
> problems).

Devdas: Maildirs CAN support both filesystem quotas and software quota
enforced by the MDA. I am doing this on a site running Courier SMTPd.

mboxes cannot enforce quota at the filesystem level. They can, at the
MDA level, if the MDA allows scripting (procmail does).

> > What do you mean by 'one that understands MAILDIRS'. Does it depend on
> > the Delivery Agent sendmail or postfix).
>
> Courier imap. Postfix can deliver directly to maildirs, while you need
> to compile procmail specially to support mail delivery.

Courier IMAP is an IMAP server; its not a delivery agent. The delivery agent
for Courier is called maildrop, with a scripting interface similar to that of
procmail. It can, in fact be used as a drop-in replacement for procmail.
Needless to say, it supports maildirs natively too. ;-)

Procmail needn't be recompiled to support maildirs. It supports Maildirs
natively nowadays. If a mailbox name ends with a / character, procmail
assumes it is a maildir, and creates it if necessary.

This /etc/procmailrc is all that it takes to move to ~/Maildir instead of
/var/spool/mail/username on a sendmail+procmail box:

binand@binand[~]:(1) cat /etc/procmailrc
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

Binand


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