Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:15:15 +0100 From: Jerome Herman <jherman@dichotomia.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maildir Format Message-ID: <4F3ED173.8000802@dichotomia.fr> In-Reply-To: <CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2YRtjfjNJ7-jqVOgORrT%2BYgv_gw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2YRtjfjNJ7-jqVOgORrT%2BYgv_gw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17/02/2012 18:16, 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. > > 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" Alpine and Mutt, try mutt first and if you do not like it try alpine. There are others (gnus, elm and cone). Elm being more or less the ancester of both pine and mutt. I never tested any of these three though.
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