From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 19:55:57 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 E66DB1065678 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:55:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DB78FC08 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-iy0-f182.google.com with SMTP id o4so6373191iae.13 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:55:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EPzd5Eh7QkUu+tSawfTw2Pk4Fuezqdm8cnRawAEdwAA=; b=uXQrpV1Hjo6FtC+YOnviR2cZszIT/+tpzTfAJkB5KqzSnZ2o7BmS6fCyIsM3kcnmqw KOoSc4xVtSJl6zPKwIbhkNzwu44PhKP/tKOVFRc2gCgQIYkj6MBMT28dFOH0qN9robK9 mi/WwAMPhQEpAEvgYZBDQ+SsVadyOfNwl0Dv8= Received: by 10.42.150.200 with SMTP id b8mr8353232icw.43.1329508557564; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ut1sm12380561igc.2.2012.02.17.11.55.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:55:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3EB0BA.5060907@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:55:38 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:55:58 -0000 On 2/17/2012 11:16 AM, 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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" I use dovecot to serve the mail, and access using imap for the clients. Almost any client you're probably going to use will support imap, so maildir vs mbox doesn't matter. It also means I have it set up to access the mail from anywhere.