Re: qmail procmail maildir

[John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

>Doesn't procmail require you to identify a Maildir via a trailing slash?
>Otherwise, it'll assume it's an mh folder.  i.e., you would need:
>
>  #define MAILSPOOLHOME "/Maildir/"

Correct.

>> also why are the names of the message files so short when delivered by
>> procmail?
>
>procmail does not follow the maildir delivery standard.  It's a bug, but they
>won't fix it.

They fixed it a while ago.  I'm using procmail 3.22 which creates Maildir
files using the same rules that qmail does, e.g.

 ~/Maildir/new/1091814022.27142.tom.iecc.com

In case of collisions, it adds an underscore and a number after the pid.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"A book is a sneeze." - E.B. White, on the writing of Charlotte's Web