Am Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:00:13PM -0700 schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 12/20/21 12:08 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > There is one last niggle: after I read a message with the mail tool, it > > saves those messages in /root/mbox. It does not do this on Arch, but > > keeps them in /var/spool/mail/root instead. > > This sounds like the doing of your mail user agent. > > The MTA+LDA receive and deliver the mail (respectively) to the user's > mailbox.
Delivery works on both systems (with a little caveat, see second-last paragraph). > The MUA is what reads / modifies the mailbox. > So ... compare the email client that you're using between the two systems. At first I believed that both systems used mail from GNU mailutils. But I erred: My Gentoo NAS only has mailutils installed. But while I have that also installed on Arch, I was in fact using s-nail’s mail program there. Mailutils installs its mail as /usr/bin/gnu-mail instead, which allows both packages to co-exist (which Gentoo does not). So I tried gnu-mail on Arch, but this does not move read mail away upon exit like its Gentoo cousin. I did more trials, wrote a lengthy description of it into this message and threw them away again, so I wouldn’t bore you. In the end I gave up, removed Gentoo’s mailutils and went with s-nail. And now it works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe building dma from source broke some stuff, because it installed into /usr/local. `echo foo | mail root` (mail from mailutils) produces mail that remains in dma’s queue, whereas `echo bar | sendmail root` (/usr/local/sbin/ sendmail from dma) gets the mail delivered to the spool file. But the latter mails were missing vital headers and thus mail had a problem displaying them properly. It’s all a bit voodoo-esque to my simple-minded user’s point of view; confusion over many implementations of the same standard; they should interoperate, but maybe don’t, or maybe I did not configure them properly. plus the overly complex configs and info documentation on GNU’s side which keeps me away. It must have been great days back in the 80s. I wish I had experienced those times and machines. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. What lies on the bottom of the ocean and shivers? - A nervours wreck.
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