Maildir Format

[APseudoUtopia]

Hello,

I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
shouldn't be a problem.

My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
Maildir.

Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
/usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.

Thank you.
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[Daniel Staal]

On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.
>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.
>
> Thank you.

Honestly, for one or two pure-text emails a day, I find 'less' on the most
recent files in the Maildir folder works fairly well, especially for just
a couple of days...

Daniel T. Staal

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[Julian H. Stacey-3]

Hi,
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> From: APseudoUtopia <[hidden email]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500
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APseudoUtopia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.

FYI an mbox splitter prog I wrote
        http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/mailsplit/

>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.
>
> Thank you.
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[Bill Campbell-4]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, APseudoUtopia wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
>and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
>the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
>with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
>shouldn't be a problem.
>
>My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
>default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
>and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
>delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
>Maildir.
>
>Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
>I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
>/usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
>The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
>much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.

Mutt would be my choice.  I have been using it for over a decade,
and it handles Maildir as well as other common mailbox formats.

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[Paul Macdonald]

On 17/02/2012 17:16, APseudoUtopia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.
>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.

why not just forward them to your gmail?

Paul.

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[Polytropon]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:06:01 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Mutt would be my choice.  I have been using it for over a decade,
> and it handles Maildir as well as other common mailbox formats.

Also pine should be able to handle it (even though it could
be called "overcomplex" in relation to /usr/bin/mail).

By the way, the suggestion of redirecting the system's mail
output to a specific user account or "external" mail account
removes the choice for a program for local use. So the user's
default MUA (even if it's a web based solution) could be used.



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[Joshua Isom-2]

On 2/17/2012 11:16 AM, APseudoUtopia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.
>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.
>
> Thank you.
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I use dovecot to serve the mail, and access using imap for the clients.
  Almost any client you're probably going to use will support imap, so
maildir vs mbox doesn't matter.  It also means I have it set up to
access the mail from anywhere.
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[Jerome Herman]

On 17/02/2012 18:16, APseudoUtopia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.
>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.
>
> Thank you.
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Alpine and Mutt, try mutt first and if you do not like it try alpine.
There are others (gnus, elm and cone). Elm being more or less the
ancester of both pine and mutt.
I never tested any of these three though.
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[John Levine]

>Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?

Pine is dead, replaced by alpine.  The FreeBSD port has a config option
to support maildirs.  I've used it, it works.

R's,
John
 
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