Edward Shabotinsky wrote: > Hello > Thanks i got it last night :-) > i don't use control and i have different startup scrip also don't use Linux > :-) > instead 'maildirname' i just use '.' and that is it. > Thanks for your help any way and for man page, it does help > i have no idea why but i have different one. > This setup i use for mail server and i don't see why i have to make all the > dirs so deep > like /var/mail/maildir/$USER/Maildir/. I came from Sendmail/Procmail > background, but > i think qmail-ldap performs better and easier to configure. > Thanks again.
Qmail wasn't designed with non-shell accounts in mind. qmail-ldap adjusts this slightly. Qmail assumes users are most likely regular Unix users, sitting with the shell there in their home directory doing real work. That's why by design you have a maildir-type mailbox called Maildir by convention, in users' home directories. qmail-local reads .qmail files from the home directories, not maildirs. Maildrop, also reads .mailfilter from the home directories by default, not maildirs. If MDAs (qmail-local, maildrop, etc.) were designed with ISPs needs in mind, you wouldn't need to be concerned about home directories. Otherwise, it's a good thing to do, but uh, much more effort than simply let home directories waste metadata space. I want to see an email package designed from scratch for ISPs in mind, but existing software is just "good enough", so why bother, right?
