At 5/9/2000 07:41 AM -0700, John Stile wrote or quoted:
>delivery 82: deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
>status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
>
>I created ~username/Maildir/
>I created a link from /var/spool/mail/jstile to ~jstile/Maildir/
>(I assumed Maildir is a directory based on it's name, but it wasn't
>clear in the directions)
>
>Is there supposed to be some subdir in ~jstile/Maildir?
Yes. All Maildirs should have directories in them named tmp, new, and cur.
All four of these directories should be mode 700 and owned by the user
whose mail is being delivered there.
The easy way to create a Maildir for one user is to log in as that user,
then run:
maildirmake ~/Maildir
You may need to give the full path to maildirmake; in that case, the path
will normally be /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake.
To make all new users have properly setup Maildirs in their home
directories when their accounts are created, create a Maildir in your
skeleton new-user directory (usually /etc/skel), like so:
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir
If you have a lot of preexisting user accounts that need Maildirs created
for them, I believe there are some scripts on www.qmail.org that will do it.
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
finger trouble /n./
Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is
surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they
spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements
instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".
