postfix and maildir

aitor11 · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 62

Hello, im installing a mailserver, by now i have postfix installed and working but i have the following problem, if i try to setup postfix to use .maildir it seems to work but i dont get anything in my maildir folder, but if instead i commnet the line about maildir in main.cf, i get the mail in /var/mail/user. What im missing?/ i cant figure out whats happening!

Aitor

kezzla · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:43 am Post subject:

Make sure postfix was compiled with these USE flags:
"maildir -mbox"
If it wasn't, re-emerge it with them.

You need this line in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
home_mailbox = .maildir/

aitor11 · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 62

Thanks!, that was the problem!

Aitor

kezzla · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 2:56 am Post subject:

Sweet ! glad I could help :lol:

jkcunningham · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:20 am Post subject:

Incidentally, you can leave the mbox flag in when you compile postfix, you just need to make sure you have the maildir flag as well.

-Jeff

nobspangle · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:34 am Post subject:

the maildir flag just adds the home_mailbox = .maildir/ line to main.cf I don't think it actually changes anything at compile time.