-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:29:36AM -0500 : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have recently setup postfix on my desktop to be my MTA, both sending and > receiving (with fetchmail). I get emails in /var/spool/mail/praedor as > expected and can see them with pine and if I do "ls /var/spool/mail" I see > the praedor mailbox.
Which is in mbox format. > In kmail (KDE 3.0.3) I changed my receiving host to local mail using maildir Which is fundamentally incompatible with what you have above. > format. In the selection window provided it had /var/spool/mail/praedor > exactly as it should. If I select it, however, and check mail I get an > error: > "cannot open ://var/spool/mail/praedor" Because /var/spool/mail/praedor is a file, not a directory. Maildir must have directories underneath it like this: [root@samba1 /]# du /home/todd/Maildir/ 77 /home/todd/Maildir/cur 30510 /home/todd/Maildir/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/tmp 29 /home/todd/Maildir/.VPN/cur 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.VPN/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.VPN/tmp 34 /home/todd/Maildir/.VPN 86 /home/todd/Maildir/.Sent/cur 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Sent/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Sent/tmp 95 /home/todd/Maildir/.Sent 17 /home/todd/Maildir/.Arkeia/cur 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Arkeia/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Arkeia/tmp 22 /home/todd/Maildir/.Arkeia 17 /home/todd/Maildir/.Trash/cur 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Trash/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Trash/tmp 26 /home/todd/Maildir/.Trash 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Drafts/cur 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Drafts/new 1 /home/todd/Maildir/.Drafts/tmp 10 /home/todd/Maildir/.Drafts 30791 /home/todd/Maildir For the above to work, I have following in /etc/postfix/main.cf: # The trailing slash is VERY important. Without the slash means # mbox format. With the slash means maildir format. home_mailbox = Maildir/ mail_spool_directory = /home Postfix cannot create the directory structure if it doesn't exist. You must create it yourself with 'maildirmake /home/todd/Maildir' for the example above. This is one case where qmail-ldap has an edge because it can be made to automatically create the required directory structure (important since the users exist only in ldap, they are not real users on the system). > Next, since kmail seems to be prepending an unneeded "/" on the default > directory I altered the entry to be simply "var/spool/mail/praedor". Now, :) Same thing. The trailing slash means maildirs, which is a directory. No trailing slash means mbox, which is a single file. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.4mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE948COlp7v05cW2woRAl0KAJ4iw1/8uhB7fzuYXty6QpB7oKjQQwCgoltg 58JorX66D/ueX992d8BV0jI= =v5dD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
