On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:32:18AM -0600, Drew Raines wrote:
> This seems like it would be a common question, but I haven't found a
> clear answer. I would like to merge the stability and speed of
> Maildirs with the administrative convenience of VSM (nice, clean,
> all-in-one directory tree). I've tried starting qmail's rc with
> something like
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start /var/spool/mail/$USER/ splogger qmail
>
> after doing a maildirmake on /var/spool/mail/$USER, but I get the
> dreaded Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir error. I've only set up qmail with
> regular vsm support before.... Could someone point me in the right
> direction or tell me why I wouldn't want to set this up this way?
I use safecat and a small tool that calculates hashed /var/spool/mail
names for this.
This should work for you: (untested!):
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start '|maildir /var/spool/mail/$USER/' splogger qmail
where 'maildir' is the maildir tool in the safecat package.
Greetz, Peter.
