Using Maildir
Greetings, I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? --Keith Lee
Re: Using Maildir
Keith Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get >Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use >Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? man qmail-start -Dave
Re: Using Maildir
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:30:15PM -0500, Keith Lee wrote:
>I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get
> Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use
> Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one?
Hello Keith,
- first make sure your startscript specifies ./Maildir/ as delivery target.
- I am afraid you need to create a Maildir for every user as well, so echo
.qmail should be no problem as well, sth like:
- assume your users all have GID 5?? (like on RedHat)
cd /home
for i in $(awk -F: '$3~/5[0-9][0-]/{print $1}'}); do
su $i -c 'maildirmake '$i'/Maildir && echo "./Maildir/" >
'$i'/.qmail
done
Regards
Mirko
Re: Using Maildir
Keith Lee writes: > Greetings, > >I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get > Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use > Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? The general answer to your question is "yes". Go into /var/qmail/boot and you'll find that all the files there differ only by the default delivery instructions. Whatever you want to do for each user (for example, check their quota before delivering mail) should be inserted in that file. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
using ./Maildir/ problems
Hi all, I am running qmail 1.03 and decided to use ./Maildir/ delivery. When an internal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent, the folling lines come in the log: @40003951f0ee087f3d54 starting delivery 33: msg 766948 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003951f0ee0880048c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003951f0ee08ebb6dc delivery 33: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ @40003951f0ee08ec85e4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 There is the path /home/mirco/Maildir/new (or cur / tmp) , which should be used for mail delivery. The last seven days I was reading so much about sendmail, qmail and all the daemons, that I now completly lost orientation. Somebody wash my brain please !! Where do I have to set the enviroment variable MAILDIR ?? And how can it be , that the path is not found although it's there ? I post everything you need, but please help me out ... Mirco, Hannover
RE: using ./Maildir/ problems
Since you stated you chose to use Maildir/ delivery I would guess that you edited defaultdelivery in your qmail rc file, or that you understand what that means. what it looks like is you need to run maildirmake (found in /var/qmail/bin) as the user mirco. Or if you already have a Maildir for mirco, you need to check the ownership and permissions. Good luck. -- Tim -Original Message- From: Mirco Jeske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: using ./Maildir/ problems Hi all, I am running qmail 1.03 and decided to use ./Maildir/ delivery. When an internal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent, the folling lines come in the log: @40003951f0ee087f3d54 starting delivery 33: msg 766948 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003951f0ee0880048c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003951f0ee08ebb6dc delivery 33: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ @40003951f0ee08ec85e4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 There is the path /home/mirco/Maildir/new (or cur / tmp) , which should be used for mail delivery. The last seven days I was reading so much about sendmail, qmail and all the daemons, that I now completly lost orientation. Somebody wash my brain please !! Where do I have to set the enviroment variable MAILDIR ?? And how can it be , that the path is not found although it's there ? I post everything you need, but please help me out ... Mirco, Hannover
Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
What is the mailbox ordering scheme that is returned by applications as qmail-pop3d when using MAILDIR? For example, if when using the 'LIST' or 'UIDL' command to POP, in what sequence will files be listed? In cronological order, or file creation time, or Do files in ~/Maildir/cur come before ~/Maildir/new? I wasn't able to find any mention of this either in the archives or in any of the doc files. Thanks --curtis
Re: Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11 Nov 99, at 11:03, Curtis Generous wrote: > I wasn't able to find any mention of this either in the archives or > in any of the doc files. How about - deliberately undocumented? What exactly do you need to know the order for? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCr3nFMwP8g7qbw/EQJGkACg4PSJgA+p6IjhS6Jf+ZywEJipX1MAoNRv YRRcxiobsrSXbwyH0910eF4y =u7Ys -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
Curtis Generous writes: > What is the mailbox ordering scheme that is returned by applications > as qmail-pop3d when using MAILDIR? > > For example, if when using the 'LIST' or 'UIDL' command to POP, > in what sequence will files be listed? In cronological order, or > file creation time, or Do files in ~/Maildir/cur come before > ~/Maildir/new? File modification time. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
According to Petr Novotny: > > On 11 Nov 99, at 11:03, Curtis Generous wrote: > > I wasn't able to find any mention of this either in the archives or > > in any of the doc files. > > How about - deliberately undocumented? > > What exactly do you need to know the order for? I need to make sure that mailbox ordering is preserved for our users after we migrate from old POP client (non MAILDIR based) to the QMAIL-POPPER so that it doesn't confuse their MUA's. The UIDL is being preserved, but some clients are choking on the ordering change. Thanks, --curtis
Re: Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
According to Russell Nelson: > > Curtis Generous writes: > > What is the mailbox ordering scheme that is returned by applications > > as qmail-pop3d when using MAILDIR? > > > > For example, if when using the 'LIST' or 'UIDL' command to POP, > > in what sequence will files be listed? In cronological order, or > > file creation time, or Do files in ~/Maildir/cur come before > > ~/Maildir/new? > > File modification time. Across both /cur and /new? What if files in /new are older than in /cur? And how does it mitigate between two files with same modification time? Thanks, --curtis
Re: Message sequence/ordering when using MAILDIR format
Curtis Generous writes: > According to Russell Nelson: > > > > Curtis Generous writes: > > > What is the mailbox ordering scheme that is returned by applications > > > as qmail-pop3d when using MAILDIR? > > > > > > For example, if when using the 'LIST' or 'UIDL' command to POP, > > > in what sequence will files be listed? In cronological order, or > > > file creation time, or Do files in ~/Maildir/cur come before > > > ~/Maildir/new? > > > > File modification time. > > Across both /cur and /new? What if files in /new are older than in /cur? Across both /cur and /new. > And how does it mitigate between two files with same modification time? The time is the only key used, so the resultant order depends on the order the files are presented by readdir(). -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
