On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:34:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Debian-Developers, > > first, many thanks all of you for your great work. As I am not a pro, I am > very glad that most of Debian works out-of-the-box. > > But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't find any > `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier and maildrop, which I > don't > want/don't need to use. Furthermore I'd like to stay with a very small and > clean and free system (only usage of apt-get, don't install any unnecessary > packages). > > After searching the web and the debian-pages (for a _long_ time vs. prior > problems) I found this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-200001/msg01717.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-200001/msg01719.html > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg02259.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg02261.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg02278.html > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script why > it isn't > included anywhere and anyway in the base-system?
Sorry about hopping in on this so late... if you're using exim with maildirs, and the maildir doesn't exist yet when a mail arrives, exim will create the maildir on the fly. Which means that this could also be achieved by sending a standard 'welcome' mail to new users when you create them (which is good practice anyway :-) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "An expert can usually spot the difference between a fake charge and a full one, but there are plenty of dead experts." -- National Geographic Channel, in a documentary about large African beasts.