From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 7: 8:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from b1n.org (200-171-41-43.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.171.41.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594EB37B41B for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by b1n.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42E9E810F; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:07:50 -0200 (BRST) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:07:50 -0200 From: BinarySoul To: Mike Meyer Cc: Holt Grendal , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/mail & Maildir Message-ID: <20020112130750.A31058@b1n.org> References: <69383255@toto.iv> <15424.10329.718958.925730@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15424.10329.718958.925730@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1011269594.831536@mired.org on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:13:13AM -0600 X-Operating-System: OpenBSD 3.0 (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 I've being using Qmail for a time and I do like /usr/bin/mail. Qmail comes with a wrapper called /var/qmail/bin/qail which does the work (converting Maildir dir to Mbox file), I've put just that in my .bashrc script: alias mail='/var/qmail/bin/qail' MAIL="$HOME/Maildir/.mbox MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir" MAILTMP="$HOME/Maildir/.tmp export MAIL MAILDIR MAILTMP that must work to you too. BTW, i do not use qmail anymore, i've find something even better. Postfix :) With Maildir mbox style. Mike Meyer (mwm-dated-1011269594.831536@mired.org) wrote: > 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. > > -- > Mike Meyer 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message