Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! I'm setting up a fresh install of qmail on my new
> OpenBSD 2.8 (i386) box. I'd like to use maildir, but
> I'm not sure if I can. Specifically, the documentation
> said that some system MUAs don't support Maildir;
> since I don't even know what an MUA is, I can't tell
> if my OS supports it.
MUA = Mail User Agent; i.e. the program you use to read mail. Mutt supports
it. Patched versions of Pine support it. I think gnus supports it.
There's others as well.
> For a bit more info, I tried setting it up anyway, and
> my test message generated this into syslog:
[...]
> Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.954941 new msg
> 437780
> Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.956063 info msg
> 437780: bytes 214 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp
> 23559 uid 0
> Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.119537 starting
> delivery 1: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.121945 status:
> local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.343842 delivery
> 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
> Is the OS' MUA my problem, or is it something else?
> /home/alex/.qmail and /home/alex/.qmail-alex both
> exist, containing simply ./Maildir/.
> /home/alex/Maildir also exists.
What is the output of
`ls -ld / /home /home/alex /home/alex/Maildir /home/alex/Maildir/*` ?
The Maildir should be owned by alex, mode 0700, and contain three subdirectories
named "new", "cur", and "tmp", with similar ownership and permissions.
The program "maildirmake" that comes with qmail sets this up properly.
Charles
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