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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:55:59 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maildir Format 
Message-ID:  <201202171756.q1HHtxPE035992@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 EST." <CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2YRtjfjNJ7-jqVOgORrT%2BYgv_gw@mail.gmail.com> 

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Hi,
Reference:
> From:		APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> 
> Date:		Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 
> Message-id:	<CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2YRtjfjNJ7-jqVOgORrT+Ygv_gw@mail.gmail.com> 

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.

FYI an mbox splitter prog I wrote
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/mailsplit/

> 
> 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.
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Cheers,
Julian
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