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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> What does sendmail's mbox useflag actually do ? |
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> I've seen it influences the dependencies - enabling it disables |
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> the dependency to procmail. What is this actually for ? |
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Sendmail writes to mbox format by default and needs procmail in order |
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to write to the Gentoo default of maildir. If you really want mbox I'd |
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add it to /etc/make.conf rather than per package. Having all things like |
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mutt, pine, etc use the same format by default will likely save you from |
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pulling your hair out at some point. |
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Having run a large mbox based system and then a much larger maildir |
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based system I can speak from experience when I say maildir is vastly |
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superior in almost all ways. |
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kashani |
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