Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul E Condon: > > > > I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter > > form mbox files being updated almost daily. > > What kind of clutter? If you are doing incremental backups (in the form > of diffs to previous versions) mbox should be alright. > > A good comparison between both formats is here: > <http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir>. > > > [...] Where can I find a recent HOWTO that adresses Debian issues, if > > it is not bad? > > What you need to do heavily depends on your mail setup. What you need to > do in mutt is described in the link above. If you are using procmail to > sort mails into the right mailbox, you generally only need to append > slashes to the mailbox names. E.g: > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR > > :0 > * ^List-Id: <debian-user.lists.debian.org> > .debian.user/ > > In this case, you don't need to touch Exim's configuration at all.
Same for the maildrop MDA. getmail can also deliver directly to Maildirs. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
