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Am Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:00:13PM -0700 schrieb Grant Taylor: |
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> On 12/20/21 12:08 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > There is one last niggle: after I read a message with the mail tool, it |
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> > saves those messages in /root/mbox. It does not do this on Arch, but |
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> > keeps them in /var/spool/mail/root instead. |
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> This sounds like the doing of your mail user agent. |
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> The MTA+LDA receive and deliver the mail (respectively) to the user's |
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> mailbox. |
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Delivery works on both systems (with a little caveat, see second-last |
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paragraph). |
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> The MUA is what reads / modifies the mailbox. |
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> So ... compare the email client that you're using between the two systems. |
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At first I believed that both systems used mail from GNU mailutils. |
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But I erred: |
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My Gentoo NAS only has mailutils installed. But while I have that also |
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installed on Arch, I was in fact using s-nail’s mail program there. |
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Mailutils installs its mail as /usr/bin/gnu-mail instead, which allows both |
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packages to co-exist (which Gentoo does not). So I tried gnu-mail on Arch, |
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but this does not move read mail away upon exit like its Gentoo cousin. |
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I did more trials, wrote a lengthy description of it into this message and |
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threw them away again, so I wouldn’t bore you. In the end I gave up, removed |
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Gentoo’s mailutils and went with s-nail. And now it works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Maybe building dma from source broke some stuff, because it installed into |
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/usr/local. `echo foo | mail root` (mail from mailutils) produces mail that |
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remains in dma’s queue, whereas `echo bar | sendmail root` (/usr/local/sbin/ |
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sendmail from dma) gets the mail delivered to the spool file. But the latter |
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mails were missing vital headers and thus mail had a problem displaying |
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them properly. |
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It’s all a bit voodoo-esque to my simple-minded user’s point of view; |
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confusion over many implementations of the same standard; they should |
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interoperate, but maybe don’t, or maybe I did not configure them properly. |
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plus the overly complex configs and info documentation on GNU’s side which |
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keeps me away. It must have been great days back in the 80s. I wish I had |
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experienced those times and machines. |
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Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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