[TriLUG] delivery of spool email

[Jason Tower]

i just went thru this exact same thing on my server.  you can add a few 
lines to the top of /etc/procmailrc to send mail to the users homedir 
like so (assuming you're using procmail):

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox

the roblem is that UW-imap won't be able to read them as it looks for 
/var/spool/mail/$USER.  my solution was to switch to dovecot, it's 
still a tad buggy (i get the occational indexing error) but otherwise 
works fine.  let me know if you want additional info.

jason

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 16:09, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> I wonder about my mail configuration.  I run a local IMAP and SMTP
> server on Mandrake 9.2 with Postfix.  The default setup keeps a
> user's Inbox as /var/spool/mail/username.  Any other IMAP folders
> that are added reside as /home/username/foldername.
>
> Is this typical?  It seems to me that I'd rather get mail out of the
> server spool and into a user's home directory.
>
> While I'm at it, it might be nice to put IMAP folders in
> /home/username/mail/foldername for the sake of neatness.
>
> How do you set yours up?  How might I go about modifying my setup for
> a more practical layout?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael