Christoph Gysin wrote:
It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful,
Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually in /home too...
Your mailreader must support maildir to read mails from it, of course. But yours seems to do it (with -f), so that's not really a problem, is it?
Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir
normally your /home isn't that small, so that shouldn't be a problem
I have a users, which do not have access to the server so I did not plan any diskspace in /home for them. Instead of that, /var is much bigger because I expected all mail to be stored there... BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be???
Again, use a pop3 server which supports maildir, and everything is fine.
I must look for one or to find how to force my pop3-server to use maildir...
You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* want to use mbox...
That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of /var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... Thanks, Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
