From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 18:17:19 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 30D74106566B for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92538FC0C for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.86] (93-97-172-73.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.172.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1HIHFS8002141 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:16 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4F3E99A7.5070909@ifdnrg.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:11 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: APseudoUtopia References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:17:19 -0000 On 17/02/2012 17:16, 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. why not just forward them to your gmail? Paul. > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546<