"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter > > form mbox files being updated almost daily. I think the clutter would > > be reduced by switching to maildir (true?), but I wonder about other > > consequences of such a switch. In particular, when I google the topic > > of how to switch, I find only people asking the question, and some > > comment to the effect 'why bother?', but no answers. Is it a bad idea > > for reasons which I have not yet fathomed? Where can I find a recent > > HOWTO that addresses Debian issues, if it is not bad? > > > > TIA > > -- > > Paul E Condon > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I just got mutt running with getmail, procmail, and mutt, using maildir. And > mairdir is the way > to go. > > I found a HOWTO on the specific topic of conversion from mbox to maildir, > using a package the > name of which I do not recall. But once you have procmail running, you can > restore your old > mail by feeding procmail from your mbox file and letting it re-deliver to > maildir. > > A good Debian-oriented HOWTO is "Email for the single user in Debian", 2004, > by Nicholas Lativy; > it is posted at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lativyn/articles/debian-mutt . > Regrettably, it covers > the combination of exim4, procmail, fetchmail, and mutt with maildir; and you > do NOT wish to use > fetchmail -- use getmail instead.
I second that, but I do consider maildrop to have a more readable syntax. And also postfix seems more easy to me than exim. So I would say: getmail, maildrop (if needed), mutt, postfix. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]