Ok, this is what I have done so far: Maildir mail on exim
Standard Debian install Exim set up using option 1 Now we tell exim to deliver to procmail and procmail will deliver to the maildirs (and filter as required) Put the line |/usr/bin/procmail into to the .forward file in the users $HOME directory,it is probably safest to ensure that this is the only line in the file. Now we need to create the maildir, for this we do it manually as installing maildirmake on Debian appears to be a bit painful and requires installing another package which holds this command as one of its parts. The create the maildir (I use .maildir as it is what I am used to), run these command from the users home directory (as the user): mkdir .maildir mkdir .maildir/cur mkdir .maildir/new mkdir .maildir/tmp Now we need to create a .procmailrc file to filter the incoming mail and place it into the maildir we have just created: MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir/ DEFAULT=$MAILDIR ## put any procmail recepies here #one as an example :0 � ^Subject:.Cron* � .cron_jobs/ #always ensure that the destination directory ends with a / otherwise it will deliver to an mbox style file rather than a maildir style directory. This appears to work so far, the next steps are to get fetchmail going (that�s pretty easy), an IMAP daemon running, then a webmail interface so I can check my emails from work on the new Debian mail server. If there is sufficient interest I am willing to document the entire process and post to the list, hopefully there won�t be any glaring errors in it, or in what I have done so far!
