From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 17:28:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F7C106566B for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871738FC12 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (mail.magehandbook.net [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3TqLtH3zJzzDs for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:28:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from 152.121.16.252 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:28:39 -0500 Message-ID: <0e40aeef175c0f3066d6d50b9b64f09c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:28:39 -0500 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Maildir Format 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: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:28:40 -0000 On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail > and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched > the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go > with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files > shouldn't be a problem. > > My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the > default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic > and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir > delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support > Maildir. > > Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use? > I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to > /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot. > The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had > much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs. > > Thank you. Honestly, for one or two pure-text emails a day, I find 'less' on the most recent files in the Maildir folder works fairly well, especially for just a couple of days... Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------