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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Naveen Glore <freebsdsl1@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Message-ID:  <20031001174023.24533.qmail@web10003.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1860000.1064952918@[192.168.0.5]>

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Hello,
 
Gary, thankyou for all the information. I will start working on setting up the mail server.
 
Thanks,
Naveen

Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info> wrote:
Hi Naveen,

--On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42:00 PM -0700 Naveen Glore 
wrote:

> In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname
> (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This
> was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted from server. Now
> with IMAP i think i need to do something for it. Is there a way to direct
> mails to /usr. Does this message redirection create any problem in
> configuring MUA?.

If you set up qmail to use /Maildir/ format, mail is stored in each users 
home dir under his/hers Maildir, so it would be under /usr/home/whomever... 
even root, for security reasons is assigned or aliased to a user. A Maildir 
is made with the command maildirmake as that user, in his $HOME. You can 
put in a Maildir in skel and it will automatically make a Maildir for each 
new user. Inside each Maildir there are 3 dirs, new, cur, tmp.. This is 
automatically created with the maildirmake command. Don't worry, if you 
will use IMAP, any MUA that can use IMAP will read the dirs properly... 
Providing you use a IMAP client that supports Maildir, as mentioned, 
Bincimap or Courier.

-- 
Gary
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