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APseudoUtopiaFeb 17, 2012 9:16 am 
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Jerome HermanFeb 17, 2012 2:14 pm 
John LevineFeb 17, 2012 6:07 pm 
Subject:Maildir Format
From:APseudoUtopia (apse@gmail.com)
Date:Feb 17, 2012 9:16:06 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

Hello,

I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files shouldn't be a problem.

My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support Maildir.

Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot. The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.

Thank you.