On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 22:14 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > Hi all, > I'm not proven on sendmail configuration. > > I would like to configure sendmail for local delivery in maildir format > instead of mailbox. > > This is because I use fetchmail as daemon, and evolution as mail reader. > Problem is that I don't use automatic recovery on evolution because I > think that this can conflict with eventualy fetching process on the same > mbox file. > > Evo will remove read mail, and sendmail will add new mail. This is not > good if it appens on the same time. > > If it is not possible, I can choose to change sendmail with postfix or > qmail, but I don't know how. Sendmail doesn't actually "deliver" the mail at all. In Fedora, by default it sub-contracts this job to procmail, and procmail can deliver to a variety of mail formats, including maildir. A sample ~/.procmailrc would be: :0 /path/to/mail/delivery/dir See "man procmailrc". Paul.
