On 01/29/2010 02:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:37 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > >> On 01/29/2010 07:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 18:46 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Yes, dovecot is just am IMAP server, but the problem is, that >>>> sendmail by default uses the mbox format. From what I read, >>>> it says that you need procmail or other method to convert the >>>> mbox format into maildir format - which is the part - that I have >>>> yet to understand how this is actually done. >>>> >>>> >>> Sendmail uses a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) to actually deliver mail. >>> There are several of these out there, including procmail and maildrop. >>> Since you can configure sendmail to pipe messages to the MDA, there's no >>> question of file conversion. In your case an obvious candidate is >>> Dovecot's own LDA (Local Delivery Agent). Whatever MDA you choose, you >>> configure it to store messages in maildir format. >>> >>> You might find this helpful: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA >>> >>> poc >>> >>> >>> >> Can you or someone give me a link or reference how to get >> sendmail/dovecot-LDA/MailDir to setup maildir format? I read >> the link you provided, but it is not clear exactly, what needs to be >> changed in dovecot's configuration file. The link on explains >> how to get LDA working (the simplest being the user's .forward >> file with: '| "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver"'), but does not say >> anything about how to set up the 'mail location' as to where the >> user's maildir might actually be converted/placed. I assume it is >> the line: >> >> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir >> >> But I have not been able to get this to work at all. >> >> Some say that one can change the /var/mail/%u directory to add: >> >> <user-account-name (directory)> >> new >> mail >> cur >> >> But I fail to see how it is that the maildir format is being >> handled, by some converter program (LDA?) and if so, which >> program is recommended, be it procmail/maildrop or is it >> something else? I am confused... >> > Once again, there's *no conversion*. The MDA will simply store the > messages into a Maildir structure if you configure it to do so. In the > case of procmail, you just create the Maildir structure for each user, > as you mention above. Obviously you also have to get sendmail to use > procmail as MDA. See the procmail(1) for more info on this. I don't use > Dovecot so I don't know how it's LDA should be configured, but Google > for Dovecot+maildir. > > See also: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-list/2009-06/msg00620.html > > poc > Thanks for the tip but I have done it in a completely different way that requires no changes to /var/mail directory as suggested. If you are interested, see: http://archives.devshed.com/forums/linux-97/sendmail-and-maildir-format-2357916.html This works really well! Dan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
