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 1E9qEe-0001Tl-4a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:28:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TKPEpV025491; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:25:14 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TKLYjT003692 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:21:35 GMT Received: (qmail 44321 invoked by uid 0); 29 Aug 2005 20:23:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Aug 2005 20:23:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:19:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.) In-Reply-To: <4313571E.6050201@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <430C7996.6070209@gmx.net> <430C7D7A.50502@gmx.ch> <430C83F8.1090508@gmx.net> <20050824162849.5b64491b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4313571E.6050201@gmx.net> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 91bc2077-9daa-4c2c-9286-668ce6684339 X-Archives-Hash: ce6db3fcfdc6bc1076b3e68eaf1e7de5 On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their > $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could > circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home > settings (5GB)... Dont know if you can stop that. > One more problem: I can not force "elm" to read it. If I start elm > with option "-f /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME", it complains that it is > directory. When I try "elm -f /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/new", the same. > It seems to me, that elm simply can not read "maildir" format at all. > I tried another command-line mailer, "mail": the same problem... > Which command-line mail-reader supports maildir format? Hey, welcome to the 21st century (noone use elm and mail anymore ;-) You probably need to setup an IMAP server and then configure Pine and/or mutt to use IMAP (mutt actually supports maildir but some people might want to use Pine instead). I would remove elm entirely. > And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox > format). After logging there I get either message "No mail", or > "You have new mail". But I do not get any similar message on my > Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate it? Not with maildirs you dont. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list