Changing /home/$USER maildir to /var...

[Vaste]

I wanna change my maildir from /home/$USER/.maildir to like /var/spool/mail/$USER.

This is because I intend to put all the maildirs on a separate partition so I won't risk missing any mail because my /home/$USER or simply / is full.

How do I do this with postfix? Is it impossible? Should I use qmail instead? Has it anything to do with Courier-IMAP? If i change home_mailbox it just appends whatever there is (like /home/$USER//var/spool...), instead of parsing it as a absolute path.

I want to use maildir and would like to avoid creating symlinks for every user.

[zhenlin]

USE="-maildir mbox" if you want one file for each and every person like the original /var/spool/mail...

[Vaste]

[choward]

You could use procmail. In your .procmailrc set MAILDIR=/what/ever/you/want and then deliver everything to $MAILDIR. Check man procmailrc for more info.
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Craig Howard
4B Computer Science -- University of Waterloo