On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 10:48:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm replacing/upgrading servers, and I'd like to switch to qmail.
> The change makes for an easy opportunity to do the change. But
> I have one crucial need before I can do that. I need a patch to
> elm to make it pick up mail from a maildir as stored by qmail.
>
> Has anyone put together such a patch yet?
Try elq in the qmail distribution. It's a small script that converts a
Maildor to an mbox, and then runs elm.
> Alternatives:
>
> A patch to elm to make it read via POP3 would suffice since POP3
> can be done on maildirs and it would thus be transparent to elm.
And then elm would store the mail locally in mbox format. So then why go
to the trouble of POPping the mail, when elq will suffice?
> Someone who is an internals guru with mutt who knows how to disable
> the color pallette change it does when it starts. I cannot use
> mutt until that problem is corrected. Several people have tried,
> as have I, and all have failed, so this might take a guru.
>From my experience with mutt, you'll need to make sure that mutt is
launched with a TERM environment setting that will make it not use
colours. Try TERM=vt100.
> A guide to how to configure qmail to use a different delivery
> mechanism per user, or how to configure it so it delivers in
> the usual mailbox format for local users and in maildir format
> for POP3 users.
man dot-qmail: per-user delivery controls.
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