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====== Procmail_-_setup_with_postfix ======

= Installing and Setting up Procmail =

====== Installing procmail is easy. ======
 apt-get install procmail

====== Config Procmail and Postfix ======
With my setup of Postfix as described here, I needed to tell postfix to hand off emails to procmail which then delivers to local users along with checking of a users .procmailrc file in their home directory. The following line in /etc/postfix/main.cf took care of it nicely. There are other ways - however this was the first to work.
 vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
 
 mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir

The above hands off emails to procmail via Maildir.

** Alternative config for Procmail and Postfix (not tested)**
 vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
 mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
 
 vi /etc/procmailrc
 DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ 
 MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir

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More info at:

http://www.pocock.com.au/linux-doc/mbox-maildir.html