Mail Compression in Maildir

2001-04-10 Thread Mustafa Mahudhawala
Hello, I know its a bit out of track ... But is it possible to keep mail (files) in Maildir i.e. in cur,new & tmp in compressed formay. (Maybe using a filter like gzip / gunzip) Any Help will be highly appreciated. Thanx & Regards Mustafa M -- VeetVision Communications

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-13 Thread Al Sparks
--- Steven Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a version of Pine that will read messages from Maildir > directly, rather than moving them to 'mail'. Anyone know of any? > > Thanks, > Steven To my knowledge, pine does not directly read Maildir

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-13 Thread Stefan Laudat
there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:49:37PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > > --- Steven Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a version of

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cavender
The RedHat RPM of pine is patched to support Maildirs. --Pete On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Stefan Laudat wrote: > > there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org > I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:49:3

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-14 Thread Stefan Laudat
. if he's so eager to have the latest version with maildir (which it doesn't support it by default) maybe he's ambitious in modifying it to suit his needs :-X > > -davidu -- Stefan Laudat CCNA & CCAI - "- I think my men can take care of one little penguin. - No Mr. Gates, your men are already dead."

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-14 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Stefan Laudat wrote: > > there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org > I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. I am working on this issue right now. What it's boiled down to has been my installing the courier-imap package

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-14 Thread tc lewis
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > Stefan Laudat wrote: > > there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org > > I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. > > I am working on this issue right now. What it'

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-14 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
et $MAIL (and $MAILDROP) properly. > that profile file came with Bruce Guenter's qmail rpms > (http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/). typically $MAIL would look like: > /home/user/Maildir/ (with the trailing slash). *chuckles* Sure enough, that worked. It even moves read messages from ~/Maild

RE: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-15 Thread davidu
Great notes on getting the newest pine working with Maildir. One thing I noticed when I set mine up: you wrote: > NOTE: Apparently, you must set inbox-path as an absolute path (which > means you can't set it to ~/Maildir because pine doesn't seem to > recognize ~/ as /home/

Re: Pine for Maildir

2001-04-17 Thread Michael Handler
tc lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i never cared for mutt either, although i never spent a huge amount of > time trying to figure it out. my main issue with it is that i could never > get it to sort my inbox properly (just normal sorting - by arrival time - > how the fi

Re: alias with maildir

2001-04-17 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 01:41 AM 4/18/2001, Patrick Wayne Tan wrote: i assume that you have postmaster going to root? check to make sure that you have a .qmail file for root to point to a non super user. ~kurth >Greetings! > >I have just set up Qmail to use Maildir. It is working fine sending to an

Re: alias with maildir

2001-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just set up Qmail to use Maildir. It is working fine sending to an >existing user. The problem is it cannot send to the alias mailbox such as >~alias/.qmail-postmaster. I think I'm missing something. I've already >touched and chmod

Re: alias and Maildir

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
> is there a way due to i have few aliases somehow to store e-mail in another > Maildir See the manual page for dot-qmail: entry descriptions (4) or (5) depending on your delivery method will give you what you need. Beware that the maildirs or mailboxes have to be owned by alias. R

Inserting messages into Maildir?

2001-04-26 Thread Steven Katz
I backed up the contents of a few Maildirs and now I'd like to put these messages into the new Maildirs. What's the best way to do this? Is it safe to simply copy them in? Thanks, Steven

Re: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Daniel Bakken wrote: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usually see the following (roughly) in > my log: > > Starting delivery 4 . . . > > deli

Re: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Charles Cazabon
Daniel Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usually see the following (roughly) in > my log: > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal: ./Maildir/:_is_a_

Re: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Daniel Bakken writes: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usually see the following (roughly) in > my log: > > Starting delivery 4 . . . > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forw

RE: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Bakken
EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:27 PM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Maildir delivery problem On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Daniel Bakken wrote: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usua

RE: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Bakken
Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:33 PM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Maildir delivery problem Daniel Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usu

RE: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Bakken
My Qmail rc script (/var/qmail/rc) reads like this: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:42 PM To: Qmail List

Re: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Charles Cazabon
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal: ./Maildir/:_is_a_directory Correcting myself: I didn't even notice the dot-forward in this line. That changes the diagnosis somewhat,

RE: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Daniel Bakken writes: > My Qmail rc script (/var/qmail/rc) reads like this: > > #!/bin/sh > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward > ./Maildir/' > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal: ./Maildir

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using > ~user/Mailbox. In order to access my mail again I had to add a symbolic > link to users mailbox in /var/mail. The server configuration changed, then. > I thought this was a result of a

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Schmid
This is what I'm using to start qmail - exec env - PATH="/usr/local/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail This has not changed since it was installed and the MailDir worked until recently. At 6/1/2001 02:21 PM -0600, you wrote: >Robert Schmid <[EM

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using > > > ~user/Mailbox. In order to access my mail again I had to add a symbolic > > > link to users mailbox in /var/mail. > > > >The server configuration changed, then. > > > > > I thought

RE: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hunter
Actually my guess is that mail is still being delivered properly, but the popper configuration has changed. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MailDir stopped working Robert Schmid

RE: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Schmid
but the >popper configuration has changed. > >-Original Message- >From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:21 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: MailDir stopped working > > >Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

RE: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-02 Thread Adrian Ho
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Robert Schmid wrote: > So, why am I no longer able to access Mailboxes without symlinks? First remove one symlink (say, yours). Then send yourself some test mail, and manually check your Mailbox file. If it's in there, then your POP daemon config is broken, as Tim Hunter su

Need help with Maildir

2001-06-26 Thread Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK)
Hi, First I want to say that I want to use Maildir. But I got this problem I can't get rid of, I probably have missed something in the INSTALL.* file. I have put the MAIL=$HOME/Maildir ; export MAIL in my .profile (using sh)), then I exec the makemaildir and after that I crated the .

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread Charles Cazabon
x > ~roger/Mail/Sent > ~roger/Mail/Lists/qmail > > ...etc. Nothing wrong with that. > The default is for qmail to deliver to ~/Maildir, but I use procmail > to deliver to ~/Mail/Inbox by default. This works fine with mutt. You could also just do echo "./Mail/Inbox"

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:34:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > My question: Is this a sensible layout for Maildir? Are there any > docs about preferred layouts, etc.? I have ~/mail/INBOX/, ~/mail/lists/qmail/, ~/mail/lists/ezmlm/ etcetera. Works like a charm. Do whatever p

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread roger
omething similar, but I don't use mbox files. Yeah, as I forgot to mention, I don't use mbox, either. > I then have a symbolic link from ~/Maildir/ to ~/Mail/inbox/, so > qmail-pop3d still works with my mail as well. Now, that sounds like a good idea. Cheers, Roger.

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You could also just do echo "./Mail/Inbox" > ~/.qmail -- this would > > accomplish the same thing, and then you don't need procmail any more. > > Ah, but then I have to figure out how to use it. I already know (just > about) how to use procmail

Quick question re maildir

2001-07-05 Thread Steve Reed
Hi all, Thanks for the great help from this group in the past. I plan to begin the migration process to qmail in the coming days and weeks, and as part of the planning process am wondering if the general consensus is that the "maildir" method is the way to go. Appreciate comme

Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/

2001-07-05 Thread Essy Ren
l root 142 0.0 0.2 1048 336 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir qmailr 143 0.0 0.2 1048 328 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 144 0.0 0.2 1040 348 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-clean But when I try to send myself an email, it show line li

Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/

2001-07-05 Thread Essy Ren
l root 142 0.0 0.2 1048 336 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir qmailr 143 0.0 0.2 1048 328 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 144 0.0 0.2 1040 348 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-clean But when I try to send myself an email, it show line li

Re: pop3d maildir problems...

2001-07-26 Thread erasor
I posted this problem yesterday. Same problem, but using tcpserver instead of inetd. (guessing we can possibly rule out either of these 2 being the cause?) /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir

Maildir/cur folder question

2001-08-05 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have noticed that sometimes email messages will appear in the /Maildir/cur folder that have the format: ...;2, I believe they also have ownership set to root:root. When this happens, then email clients (such as Netscape) get "stuck" and retrieve the same message over and over agai

Re: vsm -> /Maildir/ migration script

1999-03-16 Thread Roman V. Isaev
On 03/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > maybe smd. has written already a script which will create the proper > ~/Maildir/ for every user in /etc/passwd ? > I would really be happy to get this one (: My modified checkpassword does that... just rip off main() from maildirmake.c and

Revised maildir patch for procmail

1998-12-22 Thread Bruce Guenter
Greetings. I have just finished revising my patch for procmail that allows it to deliver to maildirs. I have added code to strip leading "From " lines from messages to be delivered into maildirs, as well as a note in the procmailrc man page regarding maildir delivery. Thanks a

The "from" script for Maildir.

1999-04-02 Thread Ricardo!
Does anyone no where I can or how I can modify the "from" script that outputs just the headers? It looks for Mailbox but I switched over to Maildirs. Thanks, Ricardo!

Re: Announce: Qmail-Maildir-0.31

1999-01-11 Thread Peter Haworth
> I've written a perl module which provides maildir delivery to perl > programs. Included are example mail sorting programs meant to be > invoked from .qmail or .qmail-default How does this differ from Mail::Folder::Maildir? -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micro

Re: dot-qmail and Maildir

1999-04-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Reid Sutherland writes: > In my ~alias/.qmail-staff I have it pointing to /home/reid/Maildir/ and > qmail won't dump the mail in there. Do I have to use .qmail-local-staff? > > /home/reid/Maildir is chmod 700 and owned by user reid What does the log file say? -- -ru

Re: dot-qmail and Maildir

1999-04-09 Thread Reid Sutherland
Unable to chdir to Maildir Reid Sutherland Network Administrator ISYS Technology Inc. http://www.isys.ca Fingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dot-qmail and Maildir

1999-04-09 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ "Reid Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | In my ~alias/.qmail-staff I have it pointing to /home/reid/Maildir/ | and qmail won't dump the mail in there. Do I have to use | .qmail-local-staff? | | /home/reid/Maildir is chmod 700 and owned by user reid + Russell Nel

IMAPD and qmail maildir support?

1999-04-28 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, I know there were some patches posted awhile back for uw imap-4.5BETA but the patches seemed to be for 4.2 - I was unsure if I had the correct patches. Does anyone know the status of maildir support for an/any imapd? Thanks. -- Y2K - We're all gonna die.

again: maildir question: why chdir()?

1999-01-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
maildir.5 states: A program delivers a mail message in six steps. First, it chdir()s to the maildir directory. why? I'd like to avoid to have to do a chdir() inside a library or force a chdir() outside of that library. I assume this has to do something with NFS, but i

creat a maildir format folder

1999-04-30 Thread BoLiang
I have a qmail-imap-4.5.beta-2 imap server and I want to creat a maildir format folder from client side How? BoLiang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Quota On Maildir when delivering

1998-12-23 Thread Jason Adams
Hello, Anyone know if it's possible to have qmail check for the size of the maildir when delivering mail.. so we could put say a 20meg quota on a users mail? Since we have qmail setup so that each pop3 box doesn't have it's own UID/GID... (Each user doesn't have a system a

Re: pop3 - no $HOME/Maildir

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 2:56 pm -0700 25/5/99,the wonderful Mahlon Smith wrote: >Your permissions for your Maildir appear to be incorrect. >Should read: >drwx-- 5 peterusers1024 Mar 28 19:51 Maildir/ > >Always best (and easiest) to create Maildirs with the supplied >maildirmake com

Re: pop3 - no $HOME/Maildir

1999-05-25 Thread Mahlon Smith
Your permissions for your Maildir appear to be incorrect. Should read: drwx-- 5 peterusers1024 Mar 28 19:51 Maildir/ Always best (and easiest) to create Maildirs with the supplied maildirmake command. (/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake by default

Re: pop3 - no $HOME/Maildir

1999-05-25 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 11:08:06PM +0100, Peter Gradwell wrote: > one thing I notice is that in the DJB faq he uses this: > > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ice.gradwell.com >/bin/checkpassword > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > > where as in D

RE: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-01 Thread RaTao von J
I love cyrus! I never had a problem with it. works very weel with qmail. I'd suggest these two . folder management works fine (because you never get to use Mailbox or /Maildir, you get cyrus mailboxes). with some scripting you'll get a 110% solution :) ...and you don't have

RE: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-01 Thread Anonymous
We use the vmailmgrd package with russ/djb's maildir/qmail-pop3d and have had no problems. Works beautifully, and you dont have to have an account for the user on the box either. On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, RaTao von J wrote: >I love cyrus! > >I never had a problem with it. works very w

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-04 Thread Todd at NM Technet
dave, all, i asked a very similar set of questions recently on this list. the result: the maildir driver for the UW imap server is very rudimentary. it works extremely well for inboxes, but not well for any other folders. i have patched it a bit to handle creating new maildirs correclty and

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-04 Thread David A Galbraith CIRT
n (*pc) (stream,sequence,mailbox,options); sprintf (LOCAL->buf,"Invalid Maildir-format mailbox name: %.80s",mailbox); mm_log (LOCAL->buf,ERROR); return NIL; default: if (pc) return (*pc) (stream,sequence,mailbox,options); sprintf (LOCAL->buf,"Not a

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-06 Thread Jan Stanik
Hi, I read this thread, and still don't see, whether is possible to give imap server (uw or cyrus) with qmail's maildirs the same functionality like with mailboxes. I would like to use imap+qmail+maildirs for our customers, but don't want to run into the problems. Does anyone really u

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-06 Thread Dave Teske
Jan, There is a problem with the UW IMAP server that prevents it from transferring between different types of mailboxes, so it's not really fully functional when used with Maildirs. You can read the mail in the Inbox but you can't move that mail to a sub folder. Cyrus uses a similar design to

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi John, sorry for disturbing you, but I followed your discussion about Qmail+ IMAP + Maildir. First, I've succesfully installed my Qmail server with POP3 and Maildir support, but I want to offer my intranet users a web based email system, that should be integraded in our web based inform

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Christian Wiese wrote: >Q: What do you use to enable Maildir support for your IMAP server, and which >IMAP server do you use ? We dont support IMAP, but there are IMAP servers out that do support maildir (cyrus) >Q: Do you have a location of Qmail-IMAP-HOWTO (or

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:44:50PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Christian Wiese wrote: > >Q: What do you use to enable Maildir support for your IMAP server, and which > >IMAP server do you use ? > > We dont support IMAP, but there are IMA

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: >> We dont support IMAP, but there are IMAP servers out that do support >> maildir (cyrus) > >Since when is that? Cyrus has his own mailbox format IIRC. then i stand corrected =) I just knew that alot of people running maildir use

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Peter van Dijk writes: > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:44:50PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > 1:40pm up 130 days, 20:43, 3 users, load average: 0.52, 0.20, 0.12 > > My gateway [which is also a workstation for the girls :)] : > 9:51pm up 122 days, 6:25, 7 users, load ave

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On 15 Jun 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: And the only reason it's that low is because I had to move it down one floor at my ISP, and didn't want to have to balance the UPS on top of it. For an extra added bonus: qmails 30733 0.0 0.2 972 180 ? S Apr 28 64:11 qmail-send

Re: Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: JGna>On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Christian Wiese wrote: JGna>>Q: What do you use to enable Maildir support for your IMAP server, and which JGna>>IMAP server do you use ? JGna> JGna>We dont support IMAP, but there are IMA

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | However, Mutt seems to be looking for the Mailbox, and I can't see an option | for setting it to use Maildirs. Set $MAIL to point to your maildir. But... is it my imagination or does mutt read the whole maildir, and then write

RE: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
l the reference books seem to assume more experience with environment variables than I have. I presume that other people who want to use Mutt with Maildir must also need to do this. Alex Miller > -Original Message- > From: Scott Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Recently, Alex Miller had the following to say about RE: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir: > Ok, thanks Scott > > but pardon my stupidity, where should I set this, rc.local with a set > command? I have Redhat, and am not clear on setting environment variables. I > know this is the kind of

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Pine, Mutt, and Maildir : "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : | However, Mutt seems to be looking for the Mailbox, and I can't see an option : | for setting it to use Maildirs. : : Set $MAIL to point to your maildir. : : But... is it my imagination or does mutt read th

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Adam D. McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I used mutt with a large (>1500 message) mailbox file once and the performance | was way worse than with large maildirs. So mutt has two problems, then. Neither bsd mail nor mh has difficulty with much bigger inboxes.

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Maybe, but I wouldn't really compare mutt to either of those.. Those are both low-feature command line mail readers no? mutt is still faster than pine for mbox.. and it handles maildir format (much) faster than mbox. --Adam - Original Message - From: Scott Schwartz <[EMAIL P

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
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Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Adam D. McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Maybe, but I wouldn't really compare mutt to either of those.. Those are both | low-feature command line mail readers no? They're high-feature command line readers with high-feature GUI wrappers available.

Mbox to Maildir conversion issues

1999-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
I wanted to uses qmail's pop3 server after having used the smtp server for a couple of weeks. Little did I know how much trouble it was going to be. I didn't know that the pope3d needed Maildir format. So I had to go through the task of converting all the users to Maildir. My p

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-06-30 Thread Adam D. McKenna
From: David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : I've been talking to Mark Crispin about the Maildir format and he as brought : up what really seems to be a valid concern to me. : : He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the filesytems : serialize creation and deletion

RE: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-06-30 Thread David Harris
Adam D. McKenna wrote: > I'm not arguing with you, but what's the difference in disk access between > appending to an existing file (mbox) and creating a new file (maildir)? > > It seems like appending an existing file would take at least one extra stat(), > and the in

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-06-30 Thread Scott Schwartz
"David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the filesytems | serialize creation and deletion of files in a single file system, because | the inode and free block tables have to be manipulated. Thus the file | creation

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-07-01 Thread Dave Sill
"David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the >filesytems serialize creation and deletion of files in a single file >system, because the inode and free block tables have to be >manipulated. Yes, that

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-07-01 Thread Adam D. McKenna
ke.. When I compile PINE on debian I have to manually edit the makefile so that it compiles with ncurses instead of termcap.. --Adam On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:19:58AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > "David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >He says that Maildir i

RE: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Miller
to it, that that is when problems could occur. Isn't that the kind of thing that makes Maildirs so great? > -Original Message- > From: Adam D. McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:45 AM > To: Dave Sill > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-07-01 Thread Richard Letts
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, David Harris wrote: > I've been talking to Mark Crispin about the Maildir format and he as brought > up what really seems to be a valid concern to me. > > He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the filesytems > serialize creation a

Re: maildir format delivery problems?

1999-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Alex Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is he seriously contending that with such a rapid flurry of mail coming > through the pipe, that it would be safer to append mails to open files, > possibly concurrently? As near as I can tell, he's arguing for some other, different type of file format t

qmail delivers to wrong maildir

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Weinem
oming mail (fetched from the pop3 server by fetchmail) ends up in /var/qmail/alias/pppdir/ (!) but unfortunately not in /home/mark/Maildir/. ~/.fetchmailrc says: - poll unidui.uni-duisburg.de proto pop3 user mweinem with password secret is mark here forcecr keep - /var/log/syslog

Re: Outgoing message and maildir

1999-07-24 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 02:36:52PM -0600, Rahmat Ara Bithi wrote: > How do i configure my SMTP to deliver all my outgoing messages to a > Maildir so that massages can be sent later by maildirsmtp? > > Bithi echo ":alias-ppp" > /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains As u

Maildir support for Pine 4.10

1999-07-31 Thread Gavin Cameron @ mail.itworks.com.au
Hi, Can someone point me to a patch to give me Maildir support for Pine 4.10? Thanks Gavin

Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread James W. Blackwell
Greetings, I need to be able to access the filename (ie, 934495102.12993.qmail:2,) of the message just saved from within a perl script launched by the .qmail-[username] file. I see there are several environmental variables that are set in the shell, but not for the filename. Any help would

/var/spool/mail/$User > ./Maildir

1999-08-26 Thread Tim Hunter
Hey sorry if this is available freely but I couldn't find it. Following a HD crash, I recovered most of the important stuff but in the process I moved from /var/spool/mail/$user to ./Maildir/ My problem now is many users still mail in the /var/spool/mail/$user box and I need to move it so

Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10

1999-09-07 Thread Kai MacTane
(Intel) box. >What I have tried to get pine to read Maildir: > >// edits to the ~/.pinerc file >inbox-path=~/Maildir (didn't work) >inbox-path=$HOME/Maildir (didn't work) >inbox-path=~/Maildir/ (didn't work) >inbox-path="inbox"

Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10

1999-09-07 Thread James Smallacombe
use $HOME/Maildir (without the trailing slash) as my pine inbox-path, I have ./Maildir/ in my .qmail file, and my env is: [richard2 james james]$ echo $MAIL /usr/home/james/Maildir Kai speculated that it might have something to do with the Linux shadow support but I have no idea what the deal i

Re: Maildir setup problem (newbie!)

1999-09-22 Thread Cyril Bitterich
Hi, >I'm attempting to use the Maildir mailbox. > >I have user/Maildir (permissions 775) and user/.qmail (permissions 664). What directories do you have exactly? ~mls/Maildir or user/Maildir ? Did you create the Maildir with qmail/bin/maildirmake ? And as far as i know your permi

Re: Maildir setup problem (newbie!)

1999-09-22 Thread Michael Slade
Thanks to everyone for their help! I did have the correct entry in .qmail (./Maildir/). My problem turned out to be that while I had manually created Maildir, I had not created the subdirectories. Using makemaildir to create the Maildir directory tree worked fine. thanks again Michael Slade

Re: qmail-popup without maildir

1999-09-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 04:27:32PM -0700, Glenn Crownover wrote: > Is it possible to use qmail-popup without using the Maildir format? The short answer is no. The long answer is you could use it, but not with qmail-pop3d. You'd need to write your own pop3 daemon that worked with the qma

Re: qmail-popup without maildir

1999-09-23 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Glenn Crownover wrote: > Is it possible to use qmail-popup without using the Maildir format? I The answer (i believe) is simple: 'no'. > am trying to use $HOME/Mailbox for mail and gather my remotely via > POP-3, but I keep getting the mess

Re: qmail-popup without maildir

1999-09-23 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > It's obvious that if you have only pop/Imap clents you *must* > convert to Maildir. It's easy and painless. Now that's not entirely accurate. If you want to use qmail's pop3d then you need to use maildir for

Re: qmail-popup without maildir

1999-09-23 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > It's obvious that if you have only pop/Imap clents you *must* > > convert to Maildir. It's easy and painless. > Now that's not entirely accurate. If you want

Grave Difficulties (lspawn, Maildir, etc)

1999-09-26 Thread jarrid jeeby
AILDUID -g$NOFILESGID \ 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & /var/qmail/rc reads: exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start " cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery " \ accustamp /var/qmail/coontrol/defaultdelivery reads: ./Maildir/ - root

Question on Mailbox and Maildir

1999-09-29 Thread Tong YU
Hello, all. My .qmail file in each homedir conatins ./Maildir/ which should direct mails to the corresponding Maildir. In general it works that way. For example, in my users/assign file, I have the entry, =sfs-cn-com-xyz:popuser:888:888:/apps/qmail/home/popboxes/sfs-cn-com/sfs-cn

Maildir conversions -- read mail, deletions

1999-11-10 Thread Adam Michaud
I'm not sure if this is a qmail issue or what, but I'm not having a whole lot of luck finding info on this anywhere else... I'm converting users with existing POP mailboxes (i.e., they keep mail on the server) from mbox to Maildir format, and in the process, switching them from

Re: User has no Maildir?

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Peter Cavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I try to check my mail, my MUA gives me the following error: > >$-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir > >What privs should the user's home and maildir have (not group or >world writable..?)? What else needs to be i

Re: Maildir to Mbox Migration

1999-11-16 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:41:58PM -0800, Kai MacTane wrote: > 2) Set concurrencylocal to 0; restart Qmail (to continue accept- >ing mail during changeover). Accepting mail is independent from running qmail-send. However if you want remote deliveries still to happen, this is the right way. >

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