sendmail delivery to local maildir?
Hi all, I would like to have sendmail sending all local mail to a maildir folder in my home (thats were all my IMAP mails go), so I can read _all_ my mail _everywhere_. Is it possible to convince sendmail to put my mail a) in maildir format instead of INBOX? b) in ~/Maildir/SOMEFOLDER instead of /var/spool/mail/choeger ? Maybe simply by linking? And if so, how to do that? thanks christoph signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sendmail delivery to local maildir?
On 06/07/2009 11:54 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to have sendmail sending all local mail to a maildir folder > in my home (thats were all my IMAP mails go), so I can read _all_ my > mail _everywhere_. Is it possible to convince sendmail to put my mail > > a) in maildir format instead of INBOX? INBOX is a place for mail not a format - you probably meant mbox format (INBOX can be in maildir format too ...) mbox is essentially deprecated and only legacy stuff (like thunderbird) holds onto mbox. I am assuming you're asking how to make yoru INBOX folder be maildir++ format as well. > > b) in ~/Maildir/SOMEFOLDER instead of /var/spool/mail/choeger ? Maybe > simply by linking? Simply add a folder for each user you want in maildir format and it should just work. You may need to move aside your existing /var/spool/mail/choeger folder - use your mail client to move the contents to the imap server - you can put them back in your INBOX later after its in maildir format. ie shutdown sendmail - then add the maildir folders: mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/cur mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/new mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/tmp chown -R choeger.choeger /var/spool/mail/choeger now procmail will recognize this (its the deliv agent for sendmail) as maildir and automatically store it in maildir format ... dovecot (if you're using dovecot for your imap server) will need to have in dovecot.conf this line: mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u Restart sendmail and dovecot and you should be done. Good luck. gene/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sendmail delivery to local maildir?
On 06/07/2009 12:50 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 06/07/2009 11:54 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: > mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/cur > mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/new > mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/choeger/tmp > > chown -R choeger.choeger /var/spool/mail/choeger > > You also should do a chmod -R o-rwx /var/spool/mail/choeger -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sendmail delivery to local maildir?
Hi, thanks for the advice. It nearly worked. After making /var/spool/mail/choeger a dir (and setting group to mail, at least my old mbox was set to that group), procmail seems to store the messages in maildir format. But it does so by putting them directly under /var/spool/mail/choeger so I can only read them after moving them to cur manually. Is that my fault? signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sendmail delivery to local maildir?
On 06/08/2009 07:12 AM, Christoph Höger wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the advice. It nearly worked. After > making /var/spool/mail/choeger a dir (and setting group to mail, at Oh yes sorry - you need to add these 2 lines to each users ~/.procmailrc (could be systemwide I suppose). Please note the trailing / after MAILDIR is vital - it tells procmail it is a directory. MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: sendmail delivery to local maildir?
Am Montag, den 08.06.2009, 20:30 -0400 schrieb Mail Lists: > > MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/ Yep, that made my day. Especially because that means I can drop mail directly under my home and do not have to link or do any other workaround. Thanks a lot signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
