[ILUG] Getting Postfix/Procmail to automagically create Maildirs

[Cian Davis]

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Francis Daly wrote, On 17/04/08 01:12:
> On 16/04/2008, Cian Davis <davisc at skynet.ie> wrote:
>
>> We have Postfix delivering to Maildirs in /var/mail/$USER via
>> procmail. All works fine - except if the user's Maildir doesn't exist
>> (like when we add a new user).
>> Is there a way to get either to automagically do it?
>
> man procmailrc says
>
> If the mailbox name ends in "/", then this directory is presumed to be
> a maildir folder; i.e., procmail will deliver the message to a file in
> a subdirectory  named "tmp" and rename it to be inside a subdirectory
> named "new".  If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or
> maildir  folder,  procmail  will  create  the  necessary directories
> if they don't exist
>
> and that seems to work in my ~/.procmailrc.
>
> How is your procmail configured?
>
> DEFAULT=/var/mail/$USER/
>
> perhaps?
>
>     f

There is no problem delivering to Maildir - it's just if the
/var/mail/$USER dir isn't there, it'll b0rk. It'll create any other
underlying folder on first delivery fine, just not the base one.

/etc/procmailrc has
DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME/
MAILDIR=/var/mail/$LOGNAME/

I don't want to have to mount the mail partition to the /home server
where the accounts are created.

Cian


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