RE: [Sheflug] mailbox format

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:03, Gareth wrote:
> Okay... well, how do I get postfix to deliver to an mbox in my home
> directory, rather than /var/spool/mail?

Why would you want to do that?

That would be giving the mail delivery agent permission to write to your
home. Probably not a great idea. Given that /var/spool/mail is also the
default location, you'll be confusing things which expect your mail
spools to be in the standard location - this isn't a recipe for getting
an imap daemon working.

> How will IMAP work if its a single mbox file?

Unless you're implementing an imap daemon, this surely doesn't concern
you. If it does, you'll find the answer in the source code.

You'll be wanting to tell us what imap daemon you're running if you have
a problem with it. The first step in troubleshooting is probably to make
sure it's running.

Cheers,

Alex.

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