Admin wrote: > Hi there, > > I have postfix 2.5.1-2 and procmail 3.22-16ubu installed on an ubuntu > box. I am trying to figure out why mail is delivered to ~/mail instead > of the postconf ~/Maildir . Is it possible that the procmail delivery > rules are taking over. If you note postconf explicitly knows Maildir is > defined as the home mailbox. "home_mailbox = Maildir/" > > What is going on here? > > # postconf -n > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail Source: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_command
mailbox_command takes precedence over home_mailbox. This makes your Maildir/ setting worthless. In short, procmail is delivering to ~/mail Brian
