From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 05:26:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B204216A402 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 05:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cdtelting-ml@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.200.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3A843D48 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 05:26:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cdtelting-ml@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.60] (c-24-126-49-116.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.126.49.116]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <200605090521180120055g2le>; Tue, 9 May 2006 05:21:22 +0000 Message-ID: <446026D2.2000102@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:21:22 -0700 From: Chris Telting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Sendmail, Cyrus-IMAP, mbox, maildir, berkeley-db X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 05:26:50 -0000 I am confused as to a number of things so I'd appreciate being straighted out. I keep searching the web and looking at documentation but I'm getting more confused. Sendmail stores mail in mbox format. I'm not sure if it allows other storage formats such as maildir or berkeley-db. And if so how it's enabled. Cyrus-IMAP unless I'm mistaken by default looks for mail in the derkeley-db file format. I'm not sure if it also supports mbox and if so how to configure that. Chris Telting