Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:28:56 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: "Florian Bofinger" <bofax@camelot.de>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Eric Brueggmann" <brueggma@students.uiuc.edu>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: sendmail+procmail --> ~/.INBOX Message-ID: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIEEDHCAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <20000613134436.I1679@camelot.de>
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(I removed -questions from the Cc: field. Please refrain from
cross-posting)
In addition to configuring sendmail to use procmail as the MDA, you'll
also need to take care when building procmail.
If building from the ports, you'll need to 'make configure', then edit
authenticate.c to tell procmail to deliver to $HOME/.mail (or whatver
filename you want):
#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the leading / */
/* delivers to $HOME/.mail */
This is in like the first 45 lines or so of the file, very easy to find.
I've had this going for a couple years now. It works very well. Next
step, is to switch to postfix+procmail+[maildir|cyrus]
--
Troy Settle
Network Analyst
Picus Communications
540.633.6327
** -----Original Message-----
** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Florian Bofinger
** Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:45 AM
** To: Giorgos Keramidas
** Cc: Eric Brueggmann; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG;
** freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
** Subject: Re: sendmail+procmail --> ~/.INBOX
**
**
** Hi,
**
** On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:01:02AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
** > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:23:49PM -0500, Eric Brueggmann wrote:
** > >
** > > My name is Eric Brueggmann and I was wondering if there is a
** > > RECENT/relevant "HOWTO" on how to get sendmail to use procmail
** > > to deliver mail into ~/.INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail/$ (FBSD
** > > 4.0-STABLE)? Or is it easier to just use qmail, that
** puts the inbox
** > > into "~/"?
** >
** > First of all, you ought to configure your sendmail to
** forward all mail
** > to the procmail delivery agent. This is done by creating
** a .forward
** > file that contains
** >
** > % cat ~/.forward
** > |/usr/local/bin/procmail
**
** If you're root on your box, a better way to do this is to include a
** feature(`LOCAL_PROCMAIL')dnl
** in your sendmail.mc.
**
** Greetings,
** Florian
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