From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 4:13:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14D7A37B41A for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 62532 invoked by uid 100); 12 Jan 2002 12:13:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15424.10329.718958.925730@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:13:13 -0600 To: Holt Grendal Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/mail & Maildir In-Reply-To: <69383255@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.43 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Holt Grendal types: > Is there anyway to make /usr/bin/mail read mail > from a qmail Maildir? Nope. mail has the Unix mailbox format wired into it. > Im guessing not so then would there be a replacement for > /usr/bin/mail that would support Maildir? There are so many replacements, and they've been around for so long, that I'm actually boggled that anyone is still using mail as an MUA. Many of those replacements support Maildir. The one I use doesn't, but it does support POP, so I just run the pop server that comes with qmail. That will work for most MUAs. > I been looking around all over and no luck yet. Try looking in /usr/ports/mail. Not everything there is a mail reader, but there are more than I can name. I don't think any of them are drop-in replacements for /usr/bin/mail, but that's because /usr/bin/mail is incredibly primitive. If you really need a drop-in for /usr/ports/mail, contact me off-list and we'll talk about it. > Qmail Users: any ideas? TIA!! If you must use mail, consider Cliff Sarginson's suggestion of a script. Qmail comes with two such scripts, elq and pinq, for use with pine and elm. Note that there is no script for mail - probably because Dan didn't think anyone would be using it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message