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On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Also, my mail data flow is: fetchmail -> postfix ->
>> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir.
>>
>> I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Windows Tbird looks
>> over the LAN to find it. No sweat.
>
> Ahh, across the LAN. :-) Networking :-(
It's not that hard. Really.
> from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is
> haggis)
>
> fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir
>
> All those programs run on haggis?
Sure. And the Courier imapd. And Icedove and Iceweasel and
PostgreSQL and X and cups and a pot-load of other stuff.
Are you surprised?
>> Mine looks like: if (
>> /^X-Mailing-List:.*<debian-user@lists.debian.org>*/ ) { to
>> "Maildir/.Lists.Debian.User.2007q1" }
>
> So the .mailfilter is on haggis? mmm, ohh thats handled by
> postfix's master.cf file?
Yes. I'm pretty sure that it's part of the Debian master.cf.
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it
# wants.
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
#
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
>>> To copy an existing $HOME/Mail/ structure
>>> ========================================= Can I just "cp Mail
>>> Maildir" then when I am happy just "rm -r Mail"
>> No. mbox & Maildir are *radically* different formats. There
>> are some mbox2md scripts floating around.
>
> Changed to maildir ages ago. Never regretted it. Simple as
Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it
shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.)
> changing the procmail recipe delivery folder from
> "path/to/folder" to
Procmail? You probably like Perl, too.
> "path/to/folder/"
>
> I was thinking more of the directory structure compatibility.
>
>> http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
>>
>>
>> Doing it with Debian is boatloads easier, so most of it is
>> irrelevant, but it did (does) work for me.
>
> Will check it out. (also Must start looking at setting up a LAN.)
>
>
>
>>> For mutt: Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)
>>> http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
>> Not really. Here are the relevant lines from ~/.muttrc :
>>
>> set imap_user=XXXX set spoolfile=imap://haggis/INBOX
>
> Right. So postfix will need be informed.
Huh? Informed of what?
>> set folder=imap://haggis/INBOX. set move=no set copy=yes set
>> record=imap://haggis/INBOX/Sent
>
> So everything is under INBOX? So a cp ~/.Mail/ ~/.Maildir/ won't
> work.
On my system, INBOX is virtual. Think of it as an IMAP construct.
>> set realname="XXXXXXXXXX" folder-hook . my_hdr From:
>> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> Is that for local LAN delivery.
Don't remember. Haven't used mutt in 6 months.
> Better start reading some basic docs, if there are any, before I
> get too confused.
>
> Thanks for your help.
Good luck.
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