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 1E7wKz-0002mK-2A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:34:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OEWWdD031576; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:32:32 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OEQiWC013274 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:26:45 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2005 14:27:47 -0000 Received: from N450P002.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.0.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 16:27:47 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <430C83F8.1090508@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:28:08 +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: Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? References: <430C7996.6070209@gmx.net> <430C7D7A.50502@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <430C7D7A.50502@gmx.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 3351f0c2-766c-4c41-a6ac-9839b053449a X-Archives-Hash: 34d494d6c86e52d6e0e6f8e07b503463 Christoph Gysin wrote: > It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful, Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually in /home too... > Your mailreader must support maildir to read mails from it, of course. > But yours seems to do it (with -f), so that's not really a problem, is it? Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir > normally your /home isn't that small, so that shouldn't be a problem I have a users, which do not have access to the server so I did not plan any diskspace in /home for them. Instead of that, /var is much bigger because I expected all mail to be stored there... BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be??? > Again, use a pop3 server which supports maildir, and everything is fine. I must look for one or to find how to force my pop3-server to use maildir... > You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* > want to use mbox... That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of /var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... Thanks, Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list