Sendmail with MAILDIR format delivery
- First you need to setup sendmail to handle mail delivery by procmail. In /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file edit the following line as follows:
Existing settings: dnl # FEATURE(local_procmail, `’, `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u’)dnl
Modified Settings: FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
- Create /etc/procmailrc file for global implementation or you may create per user basis file in $HOME/.procmailrc. Add the following contents to it:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir # you’d better make sure it exists with new, cur & tmp # subdirectories
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log #recommended
- make & restart sendmail. You are Done…
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