dovecot - Feb 2004 - Newbie question: How to make dovecot read /var/mail/user while using Maildir

Hi

I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system 
standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same 
time using Maildir as the preferred method of storage. When in 
Maildir-mode, I can store mail on the server without a hitch, but I 
don't receive mails. When in mbox-format, I can read and write, but the 
risk of corrupting mails is to high for me to consider mbox as an 
option.

I would appreciate to hear from anyone who has a possible solution to 
this.

Info about my system:

MacOSX 10.2 Jaguar
Apache 2.0.47 running Squirrelmail 1.4.2
PHP 4.3.2
Sendmail 8.12.9
Procmail v3.21

/Lars

Lars Skovgaard wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system 
> standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same time 
> using Maildir as the preferred method of storage.
Use something like safecat[1] to feed your Maildir inbox. You can
run safecat from sendmail directly or via the .forward file. That's
how I do it.

Sven

[1] http://budney.homeunix.net:8080/users/budney/linux/software/safecat.html

Lars Skovgaard wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system
> standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same
> time using Maildir as the preferred method of storage. When in
> Maildir-mode, I can store mail on the server without a hitch, but I
> don't receive mails. When in mbox-format, I can read and write, but the
> risk of corrupting mails is to high for me to consider mbox as an
> option.
> 
> I would appreciate to hear from anyone who has a possible solution to
> this.
I use procmail to do this with this at the top of my .procmailrc file:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

so it dumps all mail into my Maildir.  So I have an empty /var/mail/user
file.

Best,
Blair

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