[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

Andrew Falanga af300wsm at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 17:00:34 EET 2008


On Jan 10, 2008 4:55 AM, mouss <mlist.only at free.fr> wrote:

> Andrew Falanga wrote:
> >
> > You have no idea how much I appreciate this posting.  I installed
> procmail
> > last night, but couldn't find any reliable information on how to
> integrate
> > it into my sendmail system.  This is most helpful.  Just out of
> curiosity,
> > would you know how difficult it would be to configure for mbox?  I
> noticed
> > that this seems to be what FreeBSD defaults to and I'd like to minimize
> my
> > own heartache when getting procmail setup.
>
>
> a trailing slash means maildir  ('/foo/bar/'). no trailing slash means
> mbox ('/foo/bar').
>
> That said, FreeBSD or others don't care what format you use. the system
> will stay happy even if you use maildir :) so reconsider your position
> and take the time to check which format you should use. I say this
> because moving from one format to another will be harder once you have a
> lot of mail to convert (it's still feasible, but...).
>

I was afraid of this.  I've never actually setup e-mail from this
perspective before.  There was quite a learning curve.

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