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Christoph Gysin wrote: |
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> It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful, |
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Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. |
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On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home |
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(with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. |
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Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually |
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in /home too... |
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> Your mailreader must support maildir to read mails from it, of course. |
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> But yours seems to do it (with -f), so that's not really a problem, is it? |
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Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader |
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and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir |
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> normally your /home isn't that small, so that shouldn't be a problem |
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I have a users, which do not have access to the server so I did not |
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plan any diskspace in /home for them. Instead of that, /var is much |
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bigger because I expected all mail to be stored there... |
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BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be??? |
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> Again, use a pop3 server which supports maildir, and everything is fine. |
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I must look for one or to find how to force my pop3-server to use |
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maildir... |
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> You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* |
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> want to use mbox... |
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That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, |
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but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of |
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/var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... |
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Thanks, |
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Jarry |
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