On 17/04/2008, Cian Davis <davisc at skynet.ie> wrote:
> 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/$USER via
> >> procmail. All works fine - except if the user's Maildir doesn't exist
[manpage says]
> > If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or
> > maildir folder, procmail will create the necessary directories
> > if they don't exist
[but this doesn't work for the base directory here]
> /etc/procmailrc has
> DEFAULT=/var/mail/$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.
The only other suggestion I have is to check whether the story on
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/procmail-maildir.html
is still valid -- if so, a procmail recompile may be necessary.
Good luck,
f
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