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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Andy Coates <andy@friends-tv.net>
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Subject: Re: Pine, POP3, and Maildirs.. Help!
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> I've been playing with Maildirs recently, currently using Qmail's pop3d to
> give my user accounts more than one POP account. All mail is stored in
> various Maildirs for each pop account and that works a dream, just how I
> wanted. But I then realised that normal user accounts local to the system
> can't use Maildirs with Pine (v4.21).
> 
> As users tend to check their local mail from the system, I *need* pine to
> support Maildirs. Looking at the qmail page I found various patches to allow
> this, but I can't find one for 4.21 (just 4.20, which doesn't want to
> install on my system for some reason).
> 
> Has anyone seen a patch for Pine4.21 then? Or have any other idea how I can
> allow users on the system to check their system mail without using pop3d as
> the delivery system?

Try using some other POP client?  Or fetchmail?  Or IMAP rather than
POP (Pine can handle imap directly, and so can many other mail
clients)?  With qmail you can have users set up multiple mailboxes
corresponding to different aliases on the server, and you can access
all these mailboxes from the local machine with Pine using imap.  
Is that what you want? 


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