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* [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???
@ 2005-08-24 13:43 Jarry
  2005-08-24 14:00 ` Christoph Gysin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Jarry @ 2005-08-24 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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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2005-08-24 13:43 [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? Jarry
2005-08-24 14:00 ` 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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