On Thu, 27 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Pine only groks mailboxes, so maildir2mbox moves the messages from a maildir
>> to an mbox for Pine's benefit. In the longer run, consider running an IMAP
>> server that handles maildirs.
>
>I realized that it didn't like Maildir, but I thought you could set what
>file it used as it's mbox by setting the MAILTMP variable. I've got my
>MAILTMP set as something else entirely, yet it insists on using Mailbox.
>Why would I want to set up an IMAP server? I don't currently have one
>running. The way I see it, the less open ports I've got, the better.
You may actually want to examine the pinq script to see how it's coded.
As for running an IMAP daemon, i honestly dont see why you would want to
do that either. You can choose pop or imap, but running both only allows
you to service a market where people prefer IMAP over POP, which is rare.
The pop daemon that DJB wrote for maildir works beautifully, is simple,
fast, secure, and what more can you ask for?
OH, of course it's free too :) and you probably already have it if you
have qmail running.
>> That's a feature, qmail doesn't want to run as root which it would have to
>> do. Use ~alias/.qmail-root to send root's mail somewhere else.
>
>Ah thank you. I knew I had forgotten to ask something. I aliases work
>under qmail. I've got some aliases under people's home directories, so
>they can accept mail from other addresses, but I haven't figured out how
>the ~alias/.qmail-x works. Do I need to put the address to forward to in
>the /.qmail-root file? Is it as simple as that?
No, you need to read the documentation. This is really a much larger
question then can be answered here, but here are the relevant places to
look:
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
and specifically:
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#Aliases
>
>
>> People say nice things about mutt. The rest of us make do with worthless
>> unreliable MUAs.
>
>Glad you brought up mutt. I've been wanting to switch to it for some time
>now. Unfortunately I haven't found an editor that works with it too well.
>It was using vi, but vi seems to forget to wrap the text, so it sends
>everything on this one long line. I tried using pico as well, but it sits
>there and asks me what file I want to save it as etc., which is just a
>pain. BTW, does mutt use Maildir, or will I have to set up a mutq filter
>for it as well?
I believe that any recent version of mutt has maildir support natively.
>> More reliable than the things they replace. Dan's definition of beta
>> is along the lines of "not known to be bug-free" rather than the more
>> popular "runs well enough that maybe the users will debug it for us."
>> Like most bits of qmail, tcpserver is really nice once you believe that
>> it really is fast and nail down its typical three-mile long command line.
>
>Thanks, I'm into anything that'll save me some memory and a few CPU
>cycles. I'll have to give them a try.
>
>Regards,
>Jason
You'll find this is pretty much normal. DJB's "beta" or even "alpha"
software is usually much higher quality then the normal "beta" package. I
have much faith in DJB's coding skill.
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