On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Does anyone have a handy example or howto pointer for the matching > config changes needed to make sendmail/procmail deliver in maildir > format in home directories and for dovecot to access it there? The key is ensuring that there's a trailing forward-slash on all directory paths. :-) We deliver all mail to $HOME/maildir; /etc/procmailrc reads # # /etc/procmailrc # # unless otherwise specified by a user's ~/.procmailrc, all inbound # messages are delivered to a users ~/maildir folder. the trailing # slash is important: it indicates Maildir (not mbox) format. DEFAULT=$HOME/maildir/ User procmailrc files run in the same vein, e.g., # user .procmailrc MAILDIR=$HOME/maildir :0 * ^List-Id:.*<centos\.centos\.org> .mailinglists.centos/ For Dovecot, the key directive is mail_location: mail_location = maildir:%h/maildir The dovecot.conf file also has some maildir-specific directives; I make sure maildir files are copied with hard links (which won't work over NFS): maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes Does that help? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/