Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:34:44 -0700 From: Scott Schappell <archon@silvertree.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice re mail Message-ID: <3F720DF4.9090903@silvertree.org> In-Reply-To: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu> References: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu>
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David Bear wrote: >I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder >and processes it. > >The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by >default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda. >I will be adding procmail as the mda. I'm guessing procmail writes >the same kind of file the postfix does... but here I'm showing my >ignorance. > >I will be using python as my language and there are modules for MH, >maildir, mbox, and mailbox... Anyone have any recommended reading for >me to better understand what I need to do? > > > More than likely it's mbox format. Since you're running postfix Maildir has to be enabled in the config file by the entry home_mailbox=Maildir/. If you don't have that configured, you're using mbox formatted mailboxes. HTH
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