Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/21/2014 02:59 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/20/2014 04:00 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/19/2014 09:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> The only place that cannot (AFAIK) be in maildir format is the > INBOX. >
I'm sorry, Linda, that is not the case. My INBOX *is* in maildir format.
And it is in /var/spool/mail??? Does it create a subdir there and put messages in that?
I have INBOX'es in maildir format in e.g. /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user>/{cur,new,etc.}
works just fine.
Just so long as you are completely consistent and all the MDA, readers etc are configured for that.
There is only one software dealing with it, and that's dovecot. Period.
"Dealing with it"? "Dealing" means what?
Accessing/managing the maildir.
As I see it sendmail/postfix deals with it; procmail deals with it; spamassassin deals with it; and if you are using Thunderbird to read files rather than a server like dovecot, then Thunderbird deals with it.
I don't see it like that :-) After receiving and filtering with Spamassassin, postfix delivers incoming mails to dovecot, dovecot (optionally) stores them in the maildir after they've been filtered by sieve, then updates the index. To read them, each client has to use IMAP. (clients include TB, roundcube, smartphones, outlook etc).
The only thing that stops me letting Thundebird read all this, and yes late-model Thunderbird *can* handle both mbox and maildir, is that Thunderbird is on my workstation and not the mail server.
IMAP? Why are you running dovecot if it isn't as an IMAP server?
So no, I don't think that "there's only *ONE* software dealing with it".
Perhaps, if you don't take the point I'm trying to make here, you'd care to explain the "only one".
See above. Really, in my setup the only software that accesses/deals/fiddles with the maildir is dovecot. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org