From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:00:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d62c1c-6e16-67cd-65a9-be6f1e6916b6@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YcDUpTi9mjCzg1qJ@kern>
On 12/20/21 12:08 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> There is one last niggle: after I read a message with the mail tool,
> it saves those messages in /root/mbox. It does not do this on Arch,
> but keeps them in /var/spool/mail/root instead.
This sounds like the doing of your mail user agent.
The MTA+LDA receive and deliver the mail (respectively) to the user's
mailbox.
The MUA is what reads / modifies the mailbox.
So ... compare the email client that you're using between the two systems.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-20 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-12 13:25 [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-12 14:23 ` Alexey Mishustin
2021-12-12 23:36 ` William Kenworthy
2021-12-13 9:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-12-13 9:50 ` William Kenworthy
2021-12-13 19:40 ` tastytea
2021-12-13 20:11 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-13 21:34 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 22:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 23:49 ` tastytea
2021-12-14 23:34 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-15 20:21 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-12-15 20:38 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-15 3:26 ` Ralph Seichter
2021-12-18 23:00 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-19 2:19 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-19 14:23 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 19:08 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 19:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 20:00 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2021-12-20 22:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 22:28 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-20 22:37 ` Wol
2021-12-20 23:38 ` Grant Taylor
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