On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Imre Gergely wrote: > and it works only _this_ way, no other way? i mean i have to create home > dirs for each and every user whom i want to use this mbx format?
Correct. > there's > no way to tell imap/pop3/sendmail to use mbx directly in /var/spool/mail? Correct. You could hack the source, but the design of mbx format is *NOT* to use a mail spool directory. > another q: if i have .procmailrc, and i'm sorting my mail to ~/mail/* with > it, how can i use dmail/tmail to put those mailboxes in mbx format? and > will i be able to open them with imap? (ie in outlook, after subscribing > to those folders) procmail has a feature to pipe to a program. The program you would use for this purpose is dmail, not tmail. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
