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

["Anurag Jalan" <a_jalan vsnl com>]

Hi
----- Original Message -----
From: "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.
>

Do i just do a #mkdir /etc/skel/Maildir as root ? What about permissions ?
Do Postfix/qpopper
and fetchmail obtain The mail spool details from /etc/skel ?

> > 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.
>

Fetchmailconf does not ask me  to specify the mail spool directory .
Fetchmail polls mail
and I don't know where it saves the mail . /var/spool/anurag is NOT created
automatically .
In getmailrc i have specified the spool directory to be
/var/spool/mail/anurag ...it fetches the
mail but exits saying 'destination directory does not exist '

Thanks

Anurag