From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 12:55:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC28116A4CF for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B89743D31 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id F350511F1A3; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:55:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:55:44 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031219205544.GA2838@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20031219165302.GA51410@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031219190055.GD85955@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <3FE3523D.7000701@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FE3523D.7000701@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Managing Maildirs X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:55:50 -0000 On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: > >>Number one above will do the trick and is far more efficient than using the >>``find ...-exec'', although you might want to modify it to only nuke mail >>over a certain age. To nuke all trash over 30 days old: >> >> find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm >> > >On a totally unrelated note, I'm thinking about switching from mbox >formatted mailboxes using imap, to a more robust and faster imap server >that uses maildirs. My problem is, I have pop users, imap users, and >elm/mutt/pine users on the same box. Does elm/mutt/pine work ok with >maildirs? What about sendmail? What should I be looking out for? We made that same switch a couple of years ago at a customer's with about 500 very active mail accounts. I had to write a perl script to extract mail in U.W. IMAP's proprietary MBX format to Maildir, but that was the only thing at all difficult. I use mutt with Maildir boxes directly, and found much to my surprise that it defaulted to a secure connection to our courier-imap server when I asked for an IMAP connection. Pine should be no problem as it was probably the first MUA to use IMAP, being developed in the same group at the University of Washington where Mark Crispin is the IMAP guru. I wouldn't know about Elm since I haven't used it since switching to mutt many years ago. I would be surprised if it deals with Maildir boxes directly. I can't address sendmail since I have never used it, and probably never will (at least not unless it's under duress). Postfix can deliver to Maildir boxes. Our setup doesn't use the MTA to store mail directly, but we use deliver with a perl module handling the Maildir boxes after scanning and classifying the mail. Deliver is used much the same way as procmail using pipes. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.'' Ayn Rand