[Dovecot] Maildir + /var/mail

Greg Pearson deejay.grp at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 12:12:13 EEST 2010


>
> 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 ?
>
Quite simple at the moment.

> LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log"
> DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/"
> MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/"

I also notice some permission issues, no matter if I use a global 
procmailrc or one in user's homedir. It complains not being able to 
write Dovecot's log file. In practice, I had to force the following 
permissions:

666 /var/log/dovecot.log
666 /var/log/procmail.log


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