On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Vincent Danen wrote:
> This is a dumb way to do things. If it can't go into etcskel, then
> each Maildir aware application should attempt to make the entry to
> /etc/skel.
>
And how are you going to make the maildir? Until now maildirmake was in
courier, and courier and binc conflict. To test binc, I had to install
courier on another machine that mounts the same NFS homes share so I could
maildirmake ...
> Actually, if postfix did this, it would be enough. Chances are, if
> someone is going to use something Maildir-aware, they will either a)
> install postfix or b) install no MTA (to install qmail later, for
> example). So postfix would likely be installed before any users are
> added.
>
But postfix is by default ocnfigured for mbox, and it doesn't seem
reasonable to configure for Maildir by default, since the only IMAP server
in main doesn't do Maildir.
> Having this in contribs is just an extra package people won't think to
> install, and one additional dependency.
THe only pop/imap servers in Mandrake that support Maildir are in contrib
anyway, and both of them depend on it, so it's an acceptable solution.
IMHO, best would be to have it in etcskel, that way all users would get a
maildir by default, and we douldn't have to do things like:
$ for i in `getent passwd|awk -F: '$3>500 {print $6}'`;do maildirmake
$i/Maildir;done
Buchan
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