On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:28:48 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Before you go recompiling anything, or changing your configs, tell us > > what is your local delivery agent (LDA)? > > I'm using procmail. I've written the *.mc to include it and certain > other things. I now how to setup procmail to do what I want and ahve > used it for years. However, there are times when I want to remove > ~/.procmailrc for sometest or other and just allow mail to be > delivered to default spool. > > > Many setups do not have sendmail or postfix actually delivering > > local mail, they pass it off to procmail or similar. If procmail is > > delivering yourr mail, you need to change procmail, not sendmail. > > Yes, as is the case here. But as explained above. I want to change > sendmail not procmail. I have no need or desire to default to > ~/.maildir and in fact it interferes with my method of testing since I'm > very familiar with mbox or /var/mail/ delivery accumulated quite a > number of hand written tools an scripts based on mbox format. > > > Also are you sure you really want to go to mbox? it is in most ways > > inferior. > > Yes, for my usage (2 user home network) mbox is superior. But of > course we are now into the slippery ground of opinion. For me its > simpler and more tools recognize it by default. Such as mutt and a > number of home written perl scripts and etc. >
OK I understand now that you are not floundering in the dark, or jumping in where angels fear etc. Recompiling without the maildir USE flag and with the mbox flag should help, as already discussed. Having said that I have never done it, don't use sendmail and am wedded top maildir for the moment. Good luck :-) > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
