Can sendmail deliver to maildir instead of mailbox

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 22:14 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm not proven on sendmail configuration.
> 
> I would like to configure sendmail for local delivery in maildir format
> instead of mailbox.
> 
> This is because I use fetchmail as daemon, and evolution as mail reader.
> Problem is that I don't use automatic recovery on evolution because I
> think that this can conflict with eventualy fetching process on the same
> mbox file.
> 
> Evo will remove read mail, and sendmail will add new mail. This is not
> good if it appens on the same time.
> 
> If it is not possible, I can choose to change sendmail with postfix or
> qmail, but I don't know how.

Sendmail doesn't actually "deliver" the mail at all. In Fedora, by
default it sub-contracts this job to procmail, and procmail can deliver
to a variety of mail formats, including maildir. A sample ~/.procmailrc
would be:

:0
/path/to/mail/delivery/dir

See "man procmailrc".

Paul.