Deliver SPAM too IMAP folder

[uxbod]

Doh! Slaps self around head with wet fish ;) Must sleep more.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:34:12 +0100, "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/07, uxbod <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
>> We are not using Exchange which is why I said about IMAP.  I thought
> Postfix, which I use, would just deliver to the Maildir and it is down to
> the client software to either move automatically or via input to a folder.
>>
>> With respect to procmail then this surely would require a batch job to
> execute for each user, and I though procmail was used to pull mail from a
> remote source and distribute, not on the same server.
>>
> Eh. No. I think you have it confised with fetchmail;-). Procmail is
> used to "process" mail in a variety of ways... Read the procmailex
> manpage to see some nice examples.
> 
> You can use procmail to do the local mailbox delivery by way of the
> mailbox_command. This is good, since you'll have procmail run for each
> delivered mail without having to fiddle with any (fake) .forward file,
> as you would if you only wanted procmail for _some_ users...
> This is snipped from a main.cf.dist on one of my Mandriva systems...
> Explains it better than I do:-):
> ----
> # The mailbox_command parameter specifies the optional external
> # command to use instead of mailbox delivery. The command is run as
> # the recipient with proper HOME, SHELL and LOGNAME environment settings.
> # Exception:  delivery for root is done as $default_user.
> #
> # Other environment variables of interest: USER (recipient username),
> # EXTENSION (address extension), DOMAIN (domain part of address),
> # and LOCAL (the address localpart).
> #
> # Unlike other Postfix configuration parameters, the mailbox_command
> # parameter is not subjected to $parameter substitutions. This is to
> # make it easier to specify shell syntax (see example below).
> #
> # Avoid shell meta characters because they will force Postfix to run
> # an expensive shell process. Procmail alone is expensive enough.
> #
> # IF YOU USE THIS TO DELIVER MAIL SYSTEM-WIDE, YOU MUST SET UP AN
> # ALIAS THAT FORWARDS MAIL FOR ROOT TO A REAL USER.
> #
> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
> ----
> 
> HtH
> Cheers
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