Re: [Dovecot] Maildir + /var/mail

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