Hello!
El mié, 18-09-2002 a las 05:57, Miquel van Smoorenburg escribió: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/proposal/delivery.html Fixes proposed by Peter Palfrader, some cleanup and Miquel's comments have been worked into the proposal. Thanks for the inputs. > > 1. Files in /etc/default use KEY=VALUE format, so keep it that way > Ok. It was intended to be as simple as possible, while allowing extensions, but I think your point is better. > 2. "defaultdelivery" is to generic. Delivery of what? > > How about /etc/default/mailbox Ok. > > # Format (Maildir, MH, mbox, mbx) > INBOX_FORMAT=Maildir Ok. What is mbx? > > # Where to deliver > INBOX_PATH=~/Maildir I'm not sure about this. On one hand, it could be supposed that each delivery method has its standard mailbox location which is/should be respected by all programs using them, on the other hand you give us a means to generically specify a non standard location for the mailbox, hence more flexibility. It seems to me, that the definition of the individual mailbox is responsability of the session setup program, login/gdm, but ... > > .. and perhaps also: > > # Folders in which format? > FOLDER_FORMAT=Maildir > > # Folders where ? > FOLDER_PATH=~/Mail > > .. if you don't want to mess around with the FOLDER stuff (which > is not just a MUA thing, but which some imapds can probably use This looks nice to me: INBOX_NAME, OUTBOX_NAME, DRAFT_NAME, SENT_NAME could help resolve the naming confusion of the standard MUA's for their administrivia folders. ... > This way you can set things up so that for example Maildir delivery > is done in /var/mail/username, like I have it running here. When speaking about Maildir's, it is common to use a trailing slash. Do I understand right that you wanted to write /var/mail/username/ ? Same for INBOX_PATH=~/Maildir/ ? ... Best Regards, Jorge-León
