Hi guys,
Thanks for all the useful replies.
Erm... but I don't really have the maildirmake command anywhere in my
system. Apparently it comes with qmail or courier-imap (is it?) So I am
thinking to put them on once the exams are finished. But in the mean
time I'll try to find out if i can compile maildirmake seperately (its
gonna be quite a task for me!) and get the IMAP thing working (yes Jon,
I want IMAP with it).
hmm... good night
Guy
Matthew Sackman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:57:46PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 gxl00u@Cs.Nott.AC.UK wrote:
>>
>>> I am having a problem with configuring Postfix.
>>
>> Maildir format is what you're after yes, did you want IMAP with that?
>>
>> As for config options, 'fraid I'm not a postfix expert (I handle exim and
>> sendmail atm) however I'll take a look if nobody else comes up with the
>> answer.
>
>
> I've used postfix for a while now on a few machines. I used to use maildirs
> with courier-imap but switched to uw-imapd and mbox format a few months ago
> because the maildir was just too slow over imap (large folders with 2000+
> messages). It would be interesting to see if the recent optimisations for
> ext3 for small but numerous files have improved things...
>
> Anyway, postfix will use procmail by default, which will happily deliver to
> maildirs. Therefore, you first need to create your maildir (using the
> maildirmake command) and then manually create subfolders - note to read the
> man page on this because making sub folders is not as simple as you think -
> it's not a matter of cd into the mail dir and then a new maildirmake command
> - IIRC, you do maildirmake -f mail.subfolder (but check the man page).
>
> Postfix also seems to like maildrop which is much the same as procmail but
> slightly easier syntax. You need to include in your ~/.forward the line:
>
> "| maildrop -d matthew "
>
> (including the quotes and replace matthew with username). Then set up
> ~/.mailfilter as per man page and you're in business - it's happy delivering
> to maildirs as well as mbox.
>
> I'm not really sure why postfix likes maildrop - it's just a requirement in
> the dependancies in debian. I wouldn't have thought that it would be if it
> was just an optional replacement for procmail...
>
> If things don't work then keep checking the queue (mailq) as maildrop gives
> useful diagnosis info there as to why the email can't be delivered. It normally
> boils down to an error in ~/.mailfilter or a permissions error. Note that
> mailq -f works to try to redeliver the queue, but many other sendmail-esq
> varients are not implemented.
>
> HTH,
>
> Matthew
>
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