Hello,
cFischer wrote on Tue, May 02 2000 19:45:38:
> On Mon-01.05.00-23:31, Stefan Bender wrote:
> > I have in my .muttrc:
> >
> > set folder=~/Maildirs
> > set spoolfile=+incoming
> > set postponed=+postponed
>
> are you running procmail()? i ask this because i just got myself a
> copy, and i noticed that the "normal unix way" of things would
> deliver your mail to "/var/mail/$USER" or the like, but never to a
> private folder (+incoming). if so, how's your general setup?
I'm indeed running procmail, because I like to have mail where it
belongs to (ie. there are some mailing lists and so on, and I don't
want to mix threads or sort them out :)
I use qmail as MTA and there you can choose between (unsafe according
to D.J. Bernstein) delivery to a public (and world writable (but maybe
just mail writable)) mailfolder such as /var/mail/$user (which is mbox
format) or to, say $HOME/Mailbox (a mbox in each users $HOME dir),
avoiding to have a world writeable directory.
Having qmail as MTA I switched entirely to the maildir format for my
mails and discovered procmails delivery facilities to sort mails to my
personal folders (thanks to this list, I learned some things just by
reading :-)
So if you ask about my general setup, it's just qmail as MTA, a
personal .qmail file, which runs procmail, some recipies in
.procmailrc to sort the mails (don't forget to add a `/' for
_maildirs_ and proper versions of procmail :) and that's it.
I'm lucky that this is my own computer and I'm my own sysadm right
now, but you may have to ask your sysadmin to install procmail for
you, to make it possible to move mails from /var/mail (or
/var/spool/mail) to your home directory. Or does anyone know that
procmail runs properly even without suid root?
> > And -- IIRC -- multiple slashes in path names don't matter, so it can
> > insert it anyway, even if there is already one. :-)
>
> the / at the end is one of the easier ones, and most unixes don't mind...
I meant multiple `/`'s _in_ the path name...
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>
Regards, Stefan.
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