On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:57:45 -0500 Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Carlos Williams wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Daryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What IMAP server are you using. I have Dovecot, and ammend >>> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (on Debian) >>> and configure mail_location variable. Which will probably help you! >> >> I am not using a Imap server yet. This simply occurs with Postfix >> running on Debian and nothing more. If I send email to my Postfix >> server from the Internet, the message flows through Postfix fine and >> gets delivered to Maildir according to the logs. If I login to my >> Postfix email server and user the mutt -f /home/$user/Maildir command, >> I can read the message fine and no mbox file is created in my home >> directory. Now if I login to the Postfix server and rather than using >> mutt to read my email, if I use the "mail" command to show new >> messages, then a mbox file is created. >> >> I don't understand this however it may not be Postfix doing this...I don't >> know. > > >The "mail" command is not part of postfix. > >AFAIK the "mail" command can only read mbox files, and cannot >read mail from a maildir. I wouldn't be surprised if running >"mail" creates an mbox file if one doesn't exist. > >Don't use "mail" if you want to use maildir. Use mutt or >another program designed for maildir. > >-- >Noel Jones No need to use mail command at all. It's really only used for testing smtp connections etc. Use mutt, configure it to use maildir. set mbox=~/Maildir/ set mbox_type=Maildir. Once mutt is configured to read your mail properly, who cares about anything else!! Regards Daryl Fenn 021 556-783
