On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Joe Auty wrote:
I feel like I'm not getting things.
THe other day I installed qmail. THe instructions involved creating a
symbolic link from /var/spool/mail/username to $HOME/Maildir. I was having
some difficulty with qmail, but teh end result seemed the same with
symbolic links using Sendmail - giant unparsed messages.
I went back to sendmail due to the aforementioend problems with qmail, and
was suggested that courier may not be recognizing my Maildir as in fact
being a Maildir. I created it with maildirmake, and there are three
directories in there "new, cur, tmp". In my /etc/userdb, my mail folder is
set to /home/joe/Maildir.
With a slash on the end of /home/joe/Maildir/ ? qmail likes to know whether
it's supposed to be writing to an mbox or a maildir. INSTALL.maildir says:
Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/.
I have no idea why I'm having this unparsed directory problem. I'd like to
know if I can get this to work using sendmail, or whether I absolutely
must need qmail.
You might possibly be able to do it with sendmail calling a program that
can write to maildirs, such as safecat. I recommend switching to qmail
though.
The qmail setup instrcutiosn are confusing. It says to copy the
/var/spool/mail/user file as well as creating a symbolic link to the
Maildir directory. I don't understand how this is all supposed to work.
That's INSTALL.mbox, for if you want continue using mbox instead of
switching to maildir, and the symlink is to ~/Mailbox - that's *box*.
None of that matters if you change over completely to maildirs, in which
case INSTALL.maildir is what you need.
Thanks in advance for yoru help!
Hope this is useful to you.
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