[CentOS] procmail and dovecot

Fri Jun 13 14:48:33 UTC 2014
Chuck Campbell <campbell at accelinc.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:14:06AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Campbell
> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:09
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to get procmail and dovecot to play 
> > happily together with 
> > mboxes? I'm on Centos 6.5, fully patched.
> > 
> > I'm getting tons of lock timeouts which is killing performance.
> 
> That is 1 of 2 reasons why we switched to Maildir.

What was the second reason? Always looking for justification to take up the line with my recommendations...

> 
> > 
> > I tried using dovecot's lda from procmail, which prompted 
> > many adjustments to 
> > selinux, which I managed, but it still gives permission 
> > problems, and I haven't 
> > succeeded in getting it to deliver mail.
> > 
> > Any guesses at all would be useful.
> 
> I would recommend switching if that is an option, if it helps we did it
> incrementally on our userbase.

Are there any tools to convert procmailrc files to maildir compatible recipes?

-chuck