Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mailbox Format ?
To: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>
From: David S. <davids@idiom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/15/2003 17:42:26
> I've already read D.J.Bernstein's page about maildir (not to mention
> all the debates there have been here :-), so I'm aware of the basic
> maildir argument.
> 
> As I said earlier in this thread, I probably will install postfix, so
> I guess that makes the maildir decision for me. (And I see that
> Courier-IMAP comes with a bunch of mailbox conversion tools.)

You can use maildirs with 'sendmail'.  It requires installing 'procmail',
and configuring 'sendmail' to use that as its LDA.  Then put something like

	PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/pkg/bin
	MAILDIR=$HOME
	DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Maildir/

in '/usr/pkg/etc/procmailrc'.

David S.

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