IMAP

Setting up IMAP with Maildir

A very short bit on what to set up to use, Sendmail (Nothing needs changed Dovecot, Procmail and pine to use Maildir

This is on a Linux CentOS 4.5 System

Dovecot.conf changes: (Just what to change )

comment out pop login

protocols = imap

default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir

The above line will let /home/user/Maildir be the mail directory

/etc/procmail:

DROPPRIVS=yes

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/

:0fw
# The following line tells Procmail to send messages to Spamassassin only if they are less thatn 256000 bytes. Most spam falls well below this size and a larger size could seriously affect performance.)

* < 256000

| /usr/bin/spamc

/home/user/.procmailrc:

SHELL=/bin/sh

PMDIR=/home/goldenhawk/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
LOG="
"
VERBOSE=no

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ # This directory must exist & be writable by your LOGNAME!

INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.spamassassin
#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing
#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.subscriptions
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filters

/home/user/.procmail/rc.filter:

# ----
# Catch SPAM
# ----
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*
.spam/
#/dev/null

# ----
# Mailing list filters
# ----

# SHORTWAVE List
:0:
* ^Subject:.*[Shortwave]
.shortwave/

# F117-NIghthawk List
:0:
* ^Subject:.*F117
.nighthawk/

# Linux List

:0:
* ^Delivered-To:.*Linux
.linux/

# dump whaterver else in goldenhawk

:0:

.goldenhawk/

pine setup:

(From Main Menu via the (S) Setup then (C) Config

domain = someplace.com
inbox-path {localhost/novalidate-cert}INBOX

Then, from Main via (L) Folder Collection setup

Nickname : My Mail
Server : localhost
Path :
View :

NOTE: Pay attention to the ending "/" in rc.filters lines - and what has and does not have "/" in other files.

Thanks to String for the tips on procmail settings, I was lost on this whole thing until I made the proper rc.filters file! (I had the mail there, but they were buried so far no mail client could find them).