[Dovecot] Maildir + /var/mail

[William Blunn]

Greg Pearson wrote:
> I have just switched to Maildir, and I have noticed something. Even 
> though it works properly, I have noticed that a file named
>
> /var/mail/user
>
> with 0 bytes length is still created. Is this normal?
>
> I use sendmail+procmail+dovecot. I have also tried the combined 
> procmail+deliver approach with the same results. I also use a global 
> /etc/procmailrc.

I had a similar issue and I think it was a Procmail thing.

It stopped being a problem for me anyway because I changed some config 
in my MTA (Exim4) for another reason which happened to mean that 
Procmail was no longer invoked in most cases.

But I think it may be fixable in the Procmail space.

What is in your /etc/procmailrc ?

Bill