Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-28 Thread Martin F Krafft
* Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.28 14:21:14+0200]: > that could be a problem, I can't just change shell to /bin/false because of > procmail; > anyway, the users won't have acces to the shell; they're just winozers; I'll > let sshd connect only those approved be me. (which it would be me - h

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-28 Thread Dragos
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:39 pm, Martin F Krafft wrote: > * Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.28 13:43:56+0200]: > > LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail > > you don't need that. Maildir needs no lockfiles. point taken > > > I'll put .procmailrc in /etc/skel before I start creating users. > > now you

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-28 Thread Martin F Krafft
* Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.28 13:43:56+0200]: > LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail you don't need that. Maildir needs no lockfiles. > I'll put .procmailrc in /etc/skel before I start creating users. now you need to worry about your users and prevent them from changing that. if they don't know w

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-28 Thread Dragos
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:39 pm, Dragos wrote: ... > thanks, Martin (or should I say madduck?) > I think I'm a bit exhausted, and I don't see clearly enough... > anyway, I think I got it right: made a ~/.procmailrc which contains > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/ > and that's about i

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread MH
> "Dragos" == Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dragos> On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:06 pm, François THOMAS Dragos> thanks for your answer, François. is seems it needs more Dragos> tweaking, mail still ends in /var/spool/mail/joe; procmail Dragos> uses the $MAIL env var

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread Dragos
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:10 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > * Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 16:36:17+0200]: > > my understanding about maildir is: each user has in his/her home a > > directory called Maildir (or whatever) with 3 subdirectories new,cur,tmp; > > each message that arrives

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
* Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 16:36:17+0200]: > my understanding about maildir is: each user has in his/her home a directory > called Maildir (or whatever) with 3 subdirectories new,cur,tmp; each message > that arrives ends as separate file in the new/ subdirectory; at least that's >

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread Dragos
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:31 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > * Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 14:05:19+0200]: > > I have postfix installed here (procmail too). > > what steps should I take? > > in postfix: home_mailbox = Mail/ will deliver to a Maildir ~/Mail/ per > user. > > in procmail:

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
* Dragos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 14:05:19+0200]: > I have postfix installed here (procmail too). > what steps should I take? in postfix: home_mailbox = Mail/ will deliver to a Maildir ~/Mail/ per user. in procmail: just append a slash '/' to the mbox for each recipe RTFM -- martin;

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread Dragos
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:06 pm, François THOMAS wrote: > > -Message d'origine- > > De : Dragos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Envoyé : mardi 27 novembre 2001 13:05 > > À : debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Objet : switching to maildir from mbox > > > > > > Hello, > > I have a new debian

RE: switching to maildir from mbox

2001-11-27 Thread François THOMAS
> -Message d'origine- > De : Dragos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : mardi 27 novembre 2001 13:05 > À : debian-user@lists.debian.org > Objet : switching to maildir from mbox > > > Hello, > I have a new debian (woody) system and I would like to make the > delivery of > mail to default