Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:19:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Keith Spencer <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maildirs...how do I create them? Message-ID: <20020321111952.GA10536@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020321095707.25427.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020321095707.25427.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2002-03-21 20:57, Keith Spencer wrote:
> Hi all here is a bit of classic ignorance/confusion
> for you.
> I wish to install webmail.
> IMHO is a roxen module which has it(mostly) all.
> It can use courier imap.
> Imap needs to use maildirs.
> I already have users on my system usin cucipop mail
> access and I have sendmail on the system (Freebsd 4.3)
> I don't understand what I have to do to create these
> maildirs? Th imap docs are confuding to me.
> Do I have all the mail software I need?
> Am I supposed to install Qmail or something instead of
> sendmail?
Nah. Maildirs are just directories of the form:
maildir/
new/
cur/
tmp/
You can create one by the following commands:
% umask 066
% mkdir -p something/new
% mkdir -p something/cur
% mkdir -p something/tmp
Then something/ is a valid Maildir.
For extra bonus points, you can create a shell script called maildirmake,
that includes the following:
#!/bin/sh
umask 066
for fname in "$@" ;do
mkdir -p "${fname}"/new
mkdir -p "${fname}"/cur
mkdir -p "${fname}"/tmp
done
and then call it in commands like:
% maildirmake /home/jenny/Maildir
% cd /home
% maildirmake john/INBOX jane/Maildir george/inbox
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
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