[NBLUG/talk] Mail Help

[Walter Hansen]

Well I figured out how to have procmail not do that, but I don't see how
to have popa3d configure to handle them. It's probably not set up for such
things. Didn't figure out how to have popa3d run as a daemon yet. I'll
have to trace that down, the man page says use popa3d -D but I haven't
found the scripts for it yet. Perhaps I have to write them myself.
Probably serves me right for an RPM install.

As far as I know there is no IMAP server on this machine. But then there
could be and nobody mentioned it. Pine and elm don't even seem to be
installed and pine needed so many dependencies I just broke down and used
vi. An IMAP server might be a great thing, but I don't really think I have
use for one. On the other hand these mailboxes are going to be of great
use to me.

What I did need was pop3 and SMTP routing virtual domains now (or better
yet the day before yesterday). Now I'm on to transferring 576 domains to
the DNS on this server and setting up the mysql database to interact with
them. Really pretty simple stuff. I get to do billing processes on Monday
and Tuesday I have to have the domains all completed. Then starting
Wednesday I have to transfer interactive customer login service that
interacts with a server in LA and make it work. Once that's done perhaps
they'll let me transfer our main mail services off verio (who is sucking
real bad at the moment with 421 errors coming out like bullets) to this
server and we can stop the 3 hour lag for intra-office email.

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:15:21PM -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
>> Here's a breakthrough:
>>
>> Sendmail is putting mail in the users home directory in Maildir/new
>> instead of putting it into the normal place. What have I done? Why would
>> it do that? Did I somehow have an IMAP setup without knowing it?
>>
>> there is a cur/ new/ and tmp/ directory for each user under Maildir
>> Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at?
>
> That's a "Maildir" format mailbox.  A Maildir format mailbox consists of a
> directory containing cur, new and tmp directories (and then in those
> folders
> there will be files with names of $timestamp.$pid.$host
> (1090982720.1234.bob).  Technically the pid is something that simply has
> to
> be unique during the second delivery is occurring.  You'll often see a
> semicolon and more stuff afterwards; those are used for various flags.
>
> Maildir is usually preferred over the older mbox (big long file with
> everything in it) because Maildir doesn't require any locking and works
> well
> over NFS.
>
> I'd suggest figuring out how to get the IMAP server to read from those
> Maildirs instead of figuring out how to get sendmail (or procmail) to
> deliver to a different place...
> --
> Eric Eisenhart
> NBLUG Co-Founder & Director-At-Large
> The North Bay Linux Users Group
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