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On 2013/11/20 6:12 PM, Mick wrote:
> I thought that Thunderbird now offers Maildir ... but I don't know if this is
> a Linux feature only.
I tried it. I gave it a copy of my mboxes for conversion and it made soup out
of them. I was told that no one has done any maildir development for a long
time, that Mozilla has pulled everyone away to work on Firefox OS, that only
one person is assigned to TBird and they're doing maintenance only. Meaning:
TBird maildir is full of fatal bugs and will remain that way for the indefinite
future.
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On Wednesday 20 Nov 2013 21:07:13 Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/11/20 2:59 PM, Mick wrote:
...and the files are served to the MSWindows via SAMBA. In which case
the solution you seek is probably SAMBA.
Yes. You've helped to clarify things. I think you can now see that what I'm
trying to do is really quite elemental - simple sharing, no
synchronization, no permissions issues. I'm not sure that a mutt forum is
the appropriate venue. Do you know of anyone who is doing this and would
be willing to advise me?
I haven't heard of anyone doing this Mark, but here's an elementary smb.conf
sample to try out:
[Maildir]
comment = My Maildir on Linux
path = /var/spool/-whatever-
browsable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mask = 0640
The above assumes that you want to grant anonymous access to your mail files.
You'll need to chown the directory to user 'nobody' and group 'nogroup' for
samba purposes. This would be the simplest approach, but mutt may not be
happy with the ownership. Therefore instead of guest, use your Linux user for
SAMBA too, comment out "guest only = yes" and set a samba passwd for your
Linux user if it is not set up by default. The MSWindows machine should have
the same username and it will use this to authenticate on the samba shares to
read message files.
The documentation is very good, so have a look there for details:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
Hope this works out for you.
Thank you. You've really helped. I guess the easiest way to show the
architecture is as two differing computers, thus:
.____________. ._____________.
| | Host-Only LAN | | Bridge WAN
| NetBIOS |---------------| Samba MUA |------------ Internet
|____________| |_____________|
Windows Host Linux Guest
with a virtual LAN adapter in the Host, a virtual LAN adapter in the Guest, and
a virtual Bridge in the Guest that's bound to the Host's real hardware.
Personally I would prefer setting up dovecot on the Linux machine and then
accessing its messages from either OS.
Wouldn't that require a Windows MUA that supports Maildir?
