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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:19:52 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Keith Spencer <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: maildirs...how do I create them?
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On 2002-03-21 20:57, Keith Spencer wrote:
> Hi all here is a bit of classic ignorance/confusion
> for you.
> I wish to install webmail.
> IMHO is a roxen module which has it(mostly) all.
> It can use courier imap.
> Imap needs to use maildirs.
> I already have users on my system usin  cucipop mail
> access and I have sendmail on the system (Freebsd 4.3)
> I don't understand what I have to do to create these
> maildirs? Th imap docs are confuding to me.
> Do I have all the mail software I need?
> Am I supposed to install Qmail or something instead of
> sendmail?

Nah.  Maildirs are just directories of the form:

	maildir/
		new/
		cur/
		tmp/

You can create one by the following commands:

	% umask 066
	% mkdir -p something/new
	% mkdir -p something/cur
	% mkdir -p something/tmp

Then something/ is a valid Maildir.
For extra bonus points, you can create a shell script called maildirmake,
that includes the following:

	#!/bin/sh

	umask 066
	for fname in "$@" ;do
		mkdir -p "${fname}"/new
		mkdir -p "${fname}"/cur
		mkdir -p "${fname}"/tmp
	done

and then call it in commands like:

	% maildirmake /home/jenny/Maildir

	% cd /home
	% maildirmake john/INBOX jane/Maildir george/inbox

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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