Re: Procmail usage with virtual mailboxes


Procmail usage with virtual mailboxes
\ Steve Finkelstein (20 Oct 2007)
. \ mouss (20 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Procmail usage with virtual mailboxes
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	20 Oct 2007

Steve Finkelstein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find some documentation for using procmail with virtual
> mailboxes in Postfix. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck googling
> around or surfing through my postfix book. It seems procmail is a
> better suited tool for real users, versus mysql virtual accounts.
>
> Is this at all possible, or should I stop wasting my time and maybe
> setup dbmail+sieve?
>
> Ultimately I just want to be able to setup IMAP folders based on
> headers and other criteria. I would appreciate any feedback.
>

maildrop has better support for virtual users.

it is possible to use procmail if the whole mailstore belongs to a
single uid. you can then load per recipient config files from
procmailrc. This also works with maildrop of course.