On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:23:47PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:26:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > | > > | > BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where > | > did that come from? > | > | Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and > | first supportd by qmail; > > Oh, that explains it (after the djbdns discussion). He couldn't just > put the folders in ~/Mail !?
Most people do, even if they use Maildir format. For instance: !ls ~/Mail archive commercial debian dns friends im2000 jobs mutt nanog qmail rpg trikes are all Maildirs where I stash things. ~/Maildir is a replacement for /var/spool/mail/username. -dsr-
