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

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On  Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anurag Jalan commented thusly,

> 
> 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

You can also ask qmail to deliver to /var/spool/mail/username format, just
ask it to run procmail and procmail will deliver to
/var/spool/mail/username

> 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 ?

You dont need to do anything, pine will automatically access
/var/spool/mail/username.
 
> I am clueless , would appreciate an answer which covers all the
> options viz /var/spool/mail or ~userid/mailbox or ~userid/Maildir .

If you want qmail to deliver to /var/spool/mail/username format on your
lanserver, copy the /var/qmail/boot/proc as /var/qmail/rc , and make sure
procmail is installed on your system.

As for your 6.2 workstation there is no need to worry about it,
/var/spool/mail/username is automatically used by many progrma like PINE
etc.


Best Wishes,
Grendel


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