Thanks for ur quick reply and help.. but as u said do i need to create these . forward n .procmailrc files for each user. if so then ?? how abt a global file as far as spam is concerned i will be using Spamassassin with mailscanner . how do i let sendmail know to use procmail as my LDA i will be using dovecot as my Imap server how will be the mail users created .. r they created as normal unix users which i have done for my earlier mail server btw i already have mailserver for my old existing domain... which runs sendmail + dovecot + Spamassissan + mailscanner with normal mbox format and is working perfectly OK . but i jus want my new mailserver have mails with maildir format as i am expecting the mails for this domain users to be huge. Thnak and appreciate Regards simon Alfred Hovdestad <alfred.hovdestad@xxxxxxxx> wrote: First you need a .forward file with something like: "| /usr/bin/procmail" You also need a .procmailrc with your procmail rules: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME LOGFILE=$HOME/tmp/procmail.log LOGABSTRACT=yes :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes MyMail/SPAM You can find other procmail filters with google. Now if you're using Cyrus IMAP, you need to use sieve to filter your incoming mail. Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE University of Saskatchewan sylvan dacounha wrote: > Thanks a lot guy for the quick reply.. > > > sendmail by default does not support maildir format .. > but procmail does support .. > > but i like to know how do i let sendmail use procmail as the LDA .... > > i see that there is only a file in /usr/bin/procmail > > but no procmail.conf file in /etc or .procmailrc > > appreciet if u can let me know how to setup sendmail to use procmail as LDA .. with so exmaples > > or do i have to download procmail from net and install it since i already see a procmail executable in /usr/bin > > appreciate your help > > im user redhat enterprise 4 with sendmail 8.13 > > thnks and apprecite > > > Rgerads > > simon > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --------------------------------- Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
