On 4/30/2018 9:07 AM, LuKreme wrote: > The root user sends out some periodic mails to users. These mails get placed > in /root/sent (an mbox file) instead of in /root/Maildir/.Sent/ (a Maildir > directory). > > It’s not a big deal, but it makes clearing the mails periodically slightly > more difficult. > > The mails are sent via a crontab entry much like this: > <command> | mutt -e 'set content_type=text/html' -s "DMR $($YDAY)" > u...@kreme.com -b adminu...@kreme.com > > main.cf:home_mailbox = Maildir/ > > But I suspect the issue here is mutt and not postfix? >
Mutt (or whatever tool sends the mail) is responsible for saving the "sent" copy. See the mutt docs for how to save sent mail in a maildir folder, or if you don't need copies of sent mail you can turn that feature off. -- Noel Jones
