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 4.43) id 1E7veA-0006ew-Vs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:50:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ODlaOQ020795; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:47:36 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ODgRf7002959 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:42:28 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2005 13:43:30 -0000 Received: from N450P002.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.0.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 15:43:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <430C7996.6070209@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:43:50 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sk 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 509f72c4-ab08-4211-bc32-eb73e8be5238 X-Archives-Hash: ee0736deda2586b6fa522588d2bb1c74 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list