From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HEuKn-0000wF-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:28:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17LR2Ki019381; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:27:02 GMT Received: from mail.integraonline.com (relay2.integra.net [204.130.255.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17LMJTP013635 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:22:20 GMT Received: (qmail 11750 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2007 21:22:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ISIT) (72.11.113.218) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Feb 2007 21:22:18 -0000 From: "Michael Higgins" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:23:14 -0800 Message-ID: <005401c74afe$2dc089d0$6564a8c0@TBG.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcdK6ZRYFchnMvXRRgSOIE0jtyVtdQAAmDRQ In-Reply-To: <20070207185130.3616dfbb@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Archives-Salt: 55679e25-9db4-4d25-b91f-f94a4046146c X-Archives-Hash: 3260c59aef3b6cced0f03e6c9a87c25b > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@digimed.co.uk] > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail > > delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use > > rcvstore command in a .forward file, etc. and to set up my delivery > > using nmh if I'm a sylpheed user. This has worked for a > while and is > > working for me again. > > > > My question is, does anyone know if this is still needed? > Somehow it > > looks as if claws should handle its own delivery now, or be able to > > use maildir? > > maildir is mail storage, not delivery. I use claws-mail with > postfix and it's just a matter of setting the SMTP server to > localhost, or wherever your postfix server lives. Well, I use the "sendmail" option instead of smtp. Either one works for me. > > How do you collect mail? It's probably easiest to let postfix > store incoming mail in a local maildir I can't see how one makes that happen. FEX, mutt creates a maildir '.maildir', but postfix config template lists 'Maildir/' as option. IDK what the defaults are, nor what they should be. It _seemed_ like leaving home_maildir [or whatever related option] unset in the config delivers to ~/.maildir. Like it's a gentoo-provided default, or something. This is what I'm questioning... is there a gentoo-dev preference for not using MH (or for using .maildir not Maildir specifically) that's going to catch me up in the future. Now, I'm collecting it to the right place by having to set up nmh and a .forward file in ~/. > store and run a local > IMAP/POP server - I use dovecot for this. > Well, this is a fix for the difficulty I had. I guess claws has options only for pop or imap or local mbox. Not maildir, maybe that's what the extra '-maildir' ebuild is supposed to remedy. (IDK. It didn't seem to make a difference.) The instructions from the wiki for postfix regarding sylpheed is to use nmh and ~/.forward. I know MH is a storage thing, but the messages delivered to postfix have magically 'just shown up' in the [MH] mail folder used by claws, I suppose as a function of the files created by install-mh and .forward, as indicated in the wiki. I guess that's just the way to go as it works, or... running dovecot... which would moot the problem I have now... and give me mail access via a client not on my home machine. So, has anyone found a shell mailreader that would use MH folders? I thought I'd found a way in the past for mutt to do so, but it escapes me now. Maybe this will teach me to backup /etc before the disk craps out next time. ;-) Thanks for your reply. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list