Postfix and procmail

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Mon Nov 15 11:51:17 EST 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:10:25AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 11:04 am, miah wrote:
> > [miah at server miah]$grep procmail /etc/postfix/master.cf
> > [miah at server miah]$grep procmail /etc/postfix/main.cf
> > mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
> > #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
> >
> > After you edit the main.cf, just run 'postfix reload'.  Make sure you
> > have a ~/.procmail, and you might want a /etc/procmailrc that
> > contains the following if you're using Maildir.
> >
> > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
> > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
> Thanks. I am currently using procmail with sendmail. Of course, I could 
> stick with sendmail also, but postfix is becoming more popular. 

The only thing I think sendmail has that postfix doesn't is the insane
header rewriting, and if you're not using that feature, you might as
well run postfix =)

-miah



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