Can sendmail deliver to maildir instead of mailbox

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 22:38 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 04/06/2006 alle 21.18 +0100, Paul Howarth ha scritto:
> 
> > 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".
> Tnx a lot,
> 
> modified my procmailrc in this way
> PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
> MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/rootmd/
> #DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$USER
> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
> LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
> 
> #BOGOFILTER_DIR=/var/spool/bogofilter
> 
> #### backup ####
> #:0c:
> #mail.backup
> ####
> :0fw
> | bogofilter -p -l -e --spam-header-name=X-Ambrogio-bogo
> 
> :0e
> {
>         EXITCODE=75
>         HOST
> }
> 
> :0
> /var/spool/mail/rootmd/
> 
> My question is:
> Why changing only MAILDIR is not working?

You seem to be confused about the meaning of the MAILDIR variable. It's
the directory that procmail runs from ($HOME by default). The default
delivery location is set using the DEFAULT variable.

Paul.