On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Alan Premselaar wrote:

Patrick Galbraith wrote:

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Hi all, I have been having a hard time using Fedora Core 4 with dovecot
+sendmail. Namely, I cannot read my home dir's procmail filtering
dir (where I have some subfolders) in ~/mail. I cannot create
mailboxes either. I'm wondering if this is a client issue, and
whether I need to switch to Maildir, which I'd like to do, but
don't know how to with sendmail (with postfix, it's a piece of
cake). Any advice on what my problem is? I'm all ears! regards, Patrick

Patrick,

assuming that you're using procmail as your local delivery agent
with sendmail (which seems to be the defacto standard at least on
linux) you could switch to Maildir format simply by providing a /
at the end of your mail directory variable definition for procmail.
(check the docs for details)

If I'm not mistaken, earlier versions of procmail didn't support
this, but any current version should.

also, make sure your client software doesn't have something like
"~/.mail" or anything in the IMAP mail path setting (not sure what
that is for mail.app off the top of my head as I use thunderbird)

anyways, hope this helps.

alan

Alan,

Thanks for the info! So, what I changed was I changed 'MAILDIR=/home/ patg/mail' to 'MAILDIR=/home/patg/mail/', and then took out the '~/ mail' in the preferences for that account, and the boxes showed up!
Now, about MAILDIR, will this change the messages to be separate
files? What about the actual INBOX? I use " default_mail_env =
mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in dovecot.conf. Is this correct?

regards,

Patrick