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From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Sam Carleton" <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>,
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Subject: RE: qmail and setting up mailboxs
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:34:59 +0300
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Sam Carleton wrote:
>=20
> Alan Clegg wrote:
>=20
> > Out of the ether, Sam Carleton spewed forth the following bitstream:
> >
> > > First off, I am assuming that ~user/Mailbox is refering to the =
file
> > > /var/qmail/user/Mailbox.
> >
> > No, with shell expansion, ~user/Mailbox is a file in user's home =
directory
> > called Mailbox.
>=20
> Alan,

Actually, a "folder" is not what you would expect /var/mail/user to be.
A "folder" in the DOS world means a directory in the Unix world.
However /var/mail/user is not a directory, but a file.
It is called a folder, because it contains several mail messages, =
concatenated
one after the other.  Apart from the fact that it can contain more than =
one mail
message, it is a regular file.

All you need to do is something like:

	# cd /var/mail
	# for fname in * ;do
	    cd /home/$fname
	    mv /var/mail/$fname ./Mailbox
	done

This moves every file called USER in /var/mail to ~USER/Mailbox and
that's all you have to do :-)

Ciao,
Giorgos.



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