From: Jarry <jarry@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:43:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430C7996.6070209@gmx.net> (raw)
Hi,
I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for
users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail.
And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file.
WHY???
Some mail clients does not look for new mail in $HOME/.maildir
with default settings (for example elm, only with -f).
Moreover, I expected that all mail will be in /var/spool/mail, so
I created /var relatively big and now I see that it is almost empty.
Even my pop3 server does not look for new mail in $HOME/.maildir,
so no user can download his mail throught pop3...
How can I force my mailserver to use /var/spool/mail?
Jarry
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 13:43 Jarry [this message]
2005-08-24 14:00 ` [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Christoph Gysin
2005-08-24 14:28 ` Jarry
2005-08-24 14:44 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-24 15:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-24 18:39 ` Jarry
2005-08-29 18:42 ` [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.) Jarry
2005-08-29 20:19 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-30 6:40 ` Jarry
2005-08-30 12:46 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-30 13:16 ` Jarry
2005-08-30 15:56 ` Ron Bickers
2005-08-29 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-29 22:05 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2005-08-30 16:26 ` Willie Wong
2005-08-31 2:48 ` Walter Dnes
2005-08-24 14:33 ` [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Michael Kintzios
2005-08-24 14:49 ` Christoph Gysin
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