kai,
why not just use procmail? many people use procmail as a sendmail local
delivery agent anyway (security be damned! you're running sendmail anyway
so how much could you possibly care?). procmail talks native maildirs for
some time now.
Todd Underwood
Chief Technology Officer
Oso Grande Technologies, Inc.
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Kai MacTane wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:19:53 -0700
> From: Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Maildir-Aware /bin/mail Replacement?
>
> Hello. Does anyone know of a Maildir-aware replacement for /bin/mail, or a
> patch that will give it Maildir awareness? I've looked at qail, but that
> seems to be a simple shell script that runs maildir2mbox on the user's
> Maildir and then runs /bin/mail (and then doesn't put messages back into
> Maildir format!). This is an unacceptably clunky solution, and one that
> really isn't a total solution anyway, considering the problem.
>
> The problem, really, is that I'd like to allow users to check their mail on
> the command line (after ssh-ing in) and/or by POP3. Unfortunately, users
> familiar with the command line have a tendency to log in and type "mail" to
> see if they have any mail. And a non-Maildir-aware /bin/mail then claims
> they have none, ignoring the dozens of files in ~/Maildir/new.
>
> I have looked on the Qmail site for any such thing, and found nothing. Are
> there no Maildir patches or replacements for /bin/mail? It seems that such
> a common utility *should* have a Maildir-capable version. (I cannot write
> it myself, as I have just barely enough knowledge of C to write a 'Hello,
> World!" program.)
>
> --Kai MacTane
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