[Gllug] Postfix won't use Maildirs!

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Simon Morris wrote:

> I'm having a play with Postfix and Maildir's but not having a whole lot of
> luck.
> 
> I've set the parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf
> 
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
> 
> but it keeps delivering the mail to a mbox in /var/spool/mail even after
> restarting Postfix (and the machine!)
> 
> Here are my custom parameters:
> 
> wt-linux-04:~# postconf -n
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
> mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

I wonder whether the problem might be that you are using procmail for 
delivery rather than the postfix built-in delivery agents (the local 
delivery agent will work with a .procmailrc).

I know that local will do maildirs.

Jason Clifford
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