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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: Postfix and Maildir Delivery
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:21:57 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 7:58 AM
Subject: Postfix and Maildir Delivery


> Sometime ago, I installed Postfix and Procmail from the ports and
> ultimately was able to get my mail delivered to
/home/my_account/Maildir
> and each message is a separate file.  Now I have created an account
for
> my wife and thought that mail for her would be delivered in the same
way
> but it is not.  It is delivered to /var/mail/her_account where
> her_account is one large file containing all of her individual
messages.
>
> I have searched Google and racked my brain but I can not remember/find
> how I set my own account up for Maildir delivery.  The postfix options
> for Maildir is set and I have a /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file that
> specifies Maildir delivery.  Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm
> missing?

Apparently, each account must have a .procmailrc file in its home
directory that contains a MAILDIR definition.  I would have thought that
the one contained in /usr/local/etc/procmailrc would be sufficient.  Am
I missing something or is this just the way it is?

Thanks,

Drew


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