Saving in MAILDIR format with Sendmail

albi albi at scii.nl
Sat Apr 1 14:39:33 UTC 2006


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:29:00 -0500
Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net> wrote:

> I presently have Sendmail as my MTA. The mail in /var/mail is in MBOX 
> format. I wanted to change it to MAILDIR format.
> 
> 1) Is it possible for Sendmail to save in MAILBOX format directly?

sorry, no idea

> 2) If not, can ProcMail be used in this scenario? If so, how would I 
> configure it? I Googled and noticed something about ending directory 
> paths in '/' but I did not really understand what it was referring to.

# part of my global procmailrc

VERBOSE=off
SHELL=/bin/sh
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

the / is about other procmail-rules, e.g. :

:0
* ^From.*info at bestwebsitesonthenet.com
.Junk/


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