From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 12:55:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (alteon01e.roc.frontiernet.net [66.133.130.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 513BC37B41A for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7041 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 20:55:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nothingness.loophole.org) ([66.133.130.247]) (envelope-sender ) by relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2002 20:55:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:09:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Kevin S. Brackett" To: Mikel King Cc: , Subject: Re: sendmail w/ maildirectory In-Reply-To: <3C433BCE.8080402@ocsinternet.com> Message-ID: <20020114160419.M91005-100000@nothingness.loophole.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mikel King wrote: > Per chance does anyone know if there is a way to over ride sendmail's > default mail box behavior and have it use the mail directory structure > instead? > > Cheers, > Mikel > Yes, with the use of procmail... it's in the ports. You'll need to remake your sendmail cf to use procmail as the delivery agent (by adding "FEATURE(local_procmail)" to your .mc), then it's as easy as adding a few lines to your /usr/local/etc/procmailrc : PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Maildir/ and ... tada :) - kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message