On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:32:35AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Would someone help me out here just a bit. I am Sooo, confused!
> Any pointers or documents that explain some of this would be greatly
> appreciated..
Have you tried Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" ?
> TIA,,
> MarkT.
>
> Here's where I am in the INSTALL.maildir document.
> Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail:
> <**** This Command does not work
What error does it generate ?
> <**** Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command
> maildirmake is there.
Are you running it as the user the maildir is for ?
What command line are you using ?
Should be something like :
% su [username]
% cd /home/[username]
% maildirmake Maildir
% exit
providing you're currently running as a user able to 'su'
this creates the following structure in the user's home dir:
/home/[username]/Maildir/
/home/[username]/Maildir/new/
/home/[username]/Maildir/cur/
/home/[username]/Maildir/tmp/
> <**** What is the deal with the "%" as the first portion of the command?
The % is like the C:\> prompt in DOS ....
> % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
> % echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
>
> Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/.
>
> The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody
> by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing
> ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc.
> <******** maildir in the new-user template?? create directory called
> maildir?
Nope, run maildirmake in the skeleton directory
> <******** where is the new-user template directory on FreeBSD? What is the
> new-user <******** template file called by default?
Dunno on FreeBSD but on OpenBSD it's /etc/skel/ and /usr/share/skel
> Until your MUA supports maildir, you'll probably want to convert maildir
> format to (gaaack) mbox format. I've supplied a maildir2mbox utility
> that does the trick, along with some tiny qail and elq and pinq wrappers
> that call maildir2mbox before calling Mail or elm or pine.
> <***** Does mail(MUA), I think binmail, support maildir? This is what came
> default on <***** the bare system load. How do you implement maildir2mbox
> and (gaaack)?
HTH,
Steffan
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