Re: Grendel & Ors mail spool for postfix/qpopper/fetchmail

[Anand Buddhdev <arb anand org>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:47:13PM +0530, Anurag Jalan wrote:

> I had Sendmail running on my Lanserver , which was configured using the 
> install-sendmail script , fetchmail polled various POP3 servers and queued 
> mail to /var/spool/mail/userid . As soon as a user was added to /etc/passwd, 
> the appropriate mailbox was automatically  (?) created .  When I replaced sendmail with Qmail , 
> i used a script ( from qmail.org) to convert the spool to ~userid/Maildir for all users .
> Now each time a user is added, I have to run this script . 

No need to. Just create a Maildir in /etc/skel, and it will be created for
every new user.

> On my RH 6.2 workstation, I never used Sendmail and replaced it with Postfix/qpopper.
> There is only one user , me.. How do I create the mail spool, so that I can access my mail
> with pine etc ?  

Postfix should by default write your mail in /var/spool/mail/<username>,
and pine will pick it out of there automatically. No need to change
anything.

-- 
Anand