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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk] |
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> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> > Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail |
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> > delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use |
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> > rcvstore command in a .forward file, etc. and to set up my delivery |
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> > using nmh if I'm a sylpheed user. This has worked for a |
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> while and is |
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> > working for me again. |
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> > My question is, does anyone know if this is still needed? |
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> Somehow it |
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> > looks as if claws should handle its own delivery now, or be able to |
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> > use maildir? |
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> maildir is mail storage, not delivery. I use claws-mail with |
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> postfix and it's just a matter of setting the SMTP server to |
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> localhost, or wherever your postfix server lives. |
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Well, I use the "sendmail" option instead of smtp. Either one works for me. |
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> How do you collect mail? It's probably easiest to let postfix |
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> store incoming mail in a local maildir |
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I can't see how one makes that happen. FEX, mutt creates a maildir |
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'.maildir', but postfix config template lists 'Maildir/' as option. IDK what |
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the defaults are, nor what they should be. It _seemed_ like leaving |
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home_maildir [or whatever related option] unset in the config delivers to |
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~/.maildir. Like it's a gentoo-provided default, or something. |
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This is what I'm questioning... is there a gentoo-dev preference for not |
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using MH (or for using .maildir not Maildir specifically) that's going to |
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catch me up in the future. Now, I'm collecting it to the right place by |
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having to set up nmh and a .forward file in ~/. |
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> store and run a local |
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> IMAP/POP server - I use dovecot for this. |
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Well, this is a fix for the difficulty I had. I guess claws has options only |
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for pop or imap or local mbox. Not maildir, maybe that's what the extra |
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'-maildir' ebuild is supposed to remedy. (IDK. It didn't seem to make a |
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difference.) The instructions from the wiki for postfix regarding sylpheed |
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is to use nmh and ~/.forward. |
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I know MH is a storage thing, but the messages delivered to postfix have |
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magically 'just shown up' in the [MH] mail folder used by claws, I suppose |
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as a function of the files created by install-mh and .forward, as indicated |
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in the wiki. |
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I guess that's just the way to go as it works, or... running dovecot... |
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which would moot the problem I have now... and give me mail access via a |
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client not on my home machine. |
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So, has anyone found a shell mailreader that would use MH folders? I thought |
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I'd found a way in the past for mutt to do so, but it escapes me now. Maybe |
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this will teach me to backup /etc before the disk craps out next time. ;-) |
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Thanks for your reply. |
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Cheers, |
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Michael Higgins |
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