Thanks for all the comments.
The "problem" turned out to be a wtf on my part, I had built from source
without enabling SUPPORT_MAILDIR in the makefile.
It now all works fine.
Thanks for the help
jake
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:jh@plonk.de]
> Sent: 19 November 2006 17:17
> To: Jacob Lester
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Redhat and Maildir....
>
> Quoting Jacob Lester:
>
> > After trying the suggestions in the post and googling in vain for
> > another solution, I continue to get the 'option "maildir_format"
> > unknown' - could anyone help my sanity and/or know of a work-around?
>
> exim -bV should show something like this:
>
> # exim -bV
> ...
> Transports: appendfile/maildir autoreply pipe smtp ...
>
>