[CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Ray Leventhal

Hi all,

I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into 
the following instruction:


-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on 
the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management - 
Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
configuration.



Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to 
accomplish this?


Thanks in advance,
-Ray
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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
 I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into 
 the following instruction:
 
 -
 Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on 
 the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management - 
 Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
 configuration.
 
 
 Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to 
 accomplish this?
 

You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.

Matt

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Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263
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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Ray Leventhal

-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on 
the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management - 
Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
configuration.



Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to 
accomplish this?





You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.

Matt

  
If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the 
matching command line was for a corresponding action in X.  Please let 
me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.


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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread S.Tindall

On Friday, June 13, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ray Leventhal wrote:



Hi all,

I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have 
run into the following instruction:


-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install 
ISPConfig on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir 
under Management - Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will 
then do the necessary configuration.



Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the 
CLI to accomplish this?



# vi /etc/dovecot.conf


See: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix

Or: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir


When all else fails, read the instructions.

Steve

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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread mouss

Matt Hyclak wrote:

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
  
I'm following a how-to for ISPConfig using CentOS5.1 and have run into 
the following instruction:


-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on 
the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management - 
Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
configuration.



Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to 
accomplish this?





You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
  


indeed. That said:
- dovecot supports mbox as well.
- what is the benefit of a gui when one uses ssh... ?

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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Ray Leventhal enlightened us:
 -
 Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig on 
 the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management - 
 Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
 configuration.
 
 
 Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to 
 accomplish this?
 
 
 
 You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.
 
 Matt
 
   
 If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the 
 matching command line was for a corresponding action in X.  Please let 
 me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.
 

Management - Server - Settings - Email is most likely an ISPConfig thing,
since I don't recall ever seeing that in a CentOS menu anywhere. So without
knowing what that is doing, we can't tell you what commands you might run
over SSH to make the equivalent changes. 

Most likely it involves changing the configuration file for your MTA
(Postfix, exim, sendmail) - but again, we don't know what that is, so we
can't tell you.

There's not going to be one magic command you can run to enable Maildir on
your server.

Matt

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Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread mouss

Ray Leventhal wrote:

-
Dovecot uses Maildir format (not mbox), so if you install ISPConfig 
on the server, please make sure you enable Maildir under Management 
- Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary 
configuration.



Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI 
to accomplish this?





You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks.

Matt

  
If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what 
the matching command line was for a corresponding action in X.  Please 
let me know if I'm wrong, but this isn't OT, nor is it ISPConfig related.


what is the question then? is it how to configure dovecot to use maildir 
or how to configure the MTA (postfix, sendmail, ...) to deliver to 
maildir or how to configure the MDA (maildrop, procmail, ...) to deliver 
to maildir?


if it's to configure dovecot to use maildir instead of mbox, then the 
dovecot list and docs are a better place. the short answer is something like

   mail_location = maildir:/var/Mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
in dovecot.conf. but we cannot reproduce dovecot documentation here.

but you'd better have the MTA or MDA deliver to the same place. the easy 
way is to use dovecot LDA as your delivery agent.


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Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Ray Leventhal

Thanks for the answers, pointers and help.

Haste makes not only waste, but exposes inexperience, as it has done 
here. (my own, of course)

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