Hi Fooler:
I managed to solve it after trying out your idea along with trial & error and
googling,
The working solution turns out to be following :
I added the following to .forward:| "/usr/bin/procmail"
I created a file .procmailrc which
contains:HOME="/home/username"DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/"MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/"
I created the $HOME/Maildir folder along with its needed sub folders (new, tmp
& cur)
Thank you so much for the guidance and putting me on the right track. It is a
great solution as I don't to edit postfix configuration (though I have to
install procmail)
Very much appreciated.
Regards,Ludwig
From: fooler mail <[email protected]>
To: Ludwig Isaac Lim <[email protected]>; Philippine Linux Users' Group
(PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Setting up postfix to use maildir for one account only
Hi Ludwig,
Can you try to play with .forward (dot forward) file and procmail?
/home/username/.forward:
| "/usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir"
http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html for more details
fooler.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> How can I configure postfix on a linux machine so that only one particular
> account uses "maildir" style of mail box? I have 1 user account that receive
> multiple system emails and I want to use maildir format to avoid locking as
> I have a script that reads / deletes the emails. I don't want to convert
> every email account to maildir as the machine might already scripts that
> read mbox files for monitoring.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ludwig.
>
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