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Jarry wrote: |
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> I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for |
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> users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail. |
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> And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file. |
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> WHY??? |
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It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful, especially |
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with big mailboxes... |
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> Some mail clients does not look for new mail in $HOME/.maildir |
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> with default settings (for example elm, only with -f). |
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Your mailreader must support maildir to read mails from it, of course. But yours |
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seems to do it (with -f), so that's not really a problem, is it? |
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> Moreover, I expected that all mail will be in /var/spool/mail, so |
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> I created /var relatively big and now I see that it is almost empty. |
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Well, normally your /home isn't that small, so that shouldn't be a problem too... |
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> Even my pop3 server does not look for new mail in $HOME/.maildir, |
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> so no user can download his mail throught pop3... |
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Again, use a pop3 server which supports maildir, and everything is fine. |
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> How can I force my mailserver to use /var/spool/mail? |
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You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* want to |
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use mbox... |
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Christoph |
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echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3 |
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