postfix qmail style delivery & alpine
paul_0090
to a "Maildir" which have cur, new, tmp directories containing the mail;
the mail directories don't have the "do not delete...." lines & it looks
like the mail is identified by some numbers.
The postfix main.cf says:
# DELIVERY TO MAILBOX
#
# The home_mailbox parameter specifies the optional pathname of a
# mailbox file relative to a user's home directory. The default
# mailbox file is /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user. Specify
# "Maildir/" for qmail-style delivery (the / is required).
#
#home_mailbox = Mailbox
home_mailbox = Maildir/
# The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where
# UNIX-style mailboxes are kept. The default setting depends on the
# system type.
#
#mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
#mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
Is mail_spool_directory the only thing I need to do to get back to what
I'm used to from the qmail style of mail delivery?????
I did an add to the maildir/new to look at the mail but it was
considered empty as it doesn't have the "do not delete ...." stuff. Any
mail reader that will read the mail there?
grumble, grumble.....even sound don't work..
thanks for any help ....
paul_0090
My own followup. Fixed by uncommenting the mail_spool_directory &
commenting home_mailbox. Now back to the olde method delivery.
Still, would like to know if possible on how to have alpine read "qmail
style" mail delivery or have alpine move the qmail-style mail to the
unix-style mbox for alpine to read. I think the qmail-style delivery
may be just a type of mail spooling; will google to see more info.
cha...@washington.edu
> Still, would like to know if possible on how to have alpine read "qmail
> style" mail delivery or have alpine move the qmail-style mail to the
> unix-style mbox for alpine to read. I think the qmail-style delivery
> may be just a type of mail spooling; will google to see more info.
Alpine can not read Maildir format folders by default. If your version
of Alpine has been patched to do this, you can see it by seeing if
inbox-path=#md/inbox
finds mail in the Maildir/ directory.
paul_0090
The version being used has the patch & reading your info about Maildir
got me going; should have looked there 1st.
A question tho: is there a way to save a msg to a Maildir format? I
used the mailutil to copy the mbox saved-messages to a Mdir but was
unable to save a msg to the Mdir/saved-messages; did read I can use
mailutil to append but haven't the foggist on how it can be done
within alpine.
cha...@washington.edu
> A question tho: is there a way to save a msg to a Maildir format? I
> used the mailutil to copy the mbox saved-messages to a Mdir but was
> unable to save a msg to the Mdir/saved-messages; did read I can use
> mailutil to append but haven't the foggist on how it can be done
> within alpine.
It is possible that the mailutil program was not patched (that means
that the library used to build that program was not patched, not that
the program itself was not patched). Having said this, you can use the
"S" command within Alpine to save messages across folders.
If your folder is not in a collection, you may want to add the
collection to Alpine first (press M S L to do this).
Does this help? if not, let me know the path (in your home directory)
of the folder you want to save the message in, and I will be more
explicit on what you need to do.
paul_0090
It WORKS!!! Don't remember why it didn't before; probably because I
was fiddling with having it/them(Maildir) both in/out of the
collection.
Being able to look at the Mdir contents & see meaningful filenames
with "dir" would be nice; but don't think I can have everything!
a big thank you.
cha...@washington.edu
> Being able to look at the Mdir contents & see meaningferful filenames
> with "dir" would be nice; but don't think I can have everything!
I am glad things are working.
The maildir patch supports different ways to display and interact with
the maildir folders.
There is a default mail collection in *pine, normally in that
collection folders are created using the default format (in Unix this
is the mbox or unix format, in windows, this is the mbx format.). When
you have a directory in Alpine, this is displayed with a trailing
character (in most situations this is "/"), and when it is a folder
and a directory it is displayed with a [/] string.
Maildir folders are not directories, and as such they are not
displayed with the trailing "/" character. However, you can have a
folder to be a directory, and as such this could be displayed with the
[/] trailing string.
In a "mail/" collection maildir folders should not be any different
than any other folder in the way that it is presented to you, because
the patch only adds one format, and does not assume that the format
takes priority over any other format.
However, some other programs interact with maildir folders and leave
other traces in them in terms of files that are undesirable to have
displayed. For those cases, and when you want to display only your
maildir folders and not any auxiliary files you can create a maildir
collection, where only maildir folders (and nothing more) will be
displayed.
There are two types of formats that are possible to be displayed, the
usual format, and the Courier/Cirus style. In the former the separator
character is "/", and in the latter it is a period ".". Those two
formats are supported.
Additionally, procmail creates names for filenames that contain
messages in a nonstandard way. That is also supported in the patch.
All of this is supported by the patch, so if you have any problem in
the way things are displayed currently, there is probably a way to fix
it to fit your needs. Let me know and I will try to help you.