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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:56:59
Message-Id: 20070207185130.3616dfbb@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way by Michael Higgins
1 On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
2
3 > Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail delivery
4 > thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use rcvstore
5 > command in a .forward file, etc. and to set up my delivery using nmh if
6 > I'm a sylpheed user. This has worked for a while and is working for me
7 > again.
8 >
9 > My question is, does anyone know if this is still needed? Somehow it
10 > looks as if claws should handle its own delivery now, or be able to use
11 > maildir?
12
13 maildir is mail storage, not delivery. I use claws-mail with postfix and
14 it's just a matter of setting the SMTP server to localhost, or wherever
15 your postfix server lives.
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17 How do you collect mail? It's probably easiest to let postfix store
18 incoming mail in a local maildir store and run a local IMAP/POP server -
19 I use dovecot for this.
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23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 "Bother," said Pooh, as his 'B' sample tested positive.

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RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way Michael Higgins <mhiggins@×××××××××××××.com>