[TriLUG] Mail server questions

[Sam Folk-Williams]

John,

Thanks for the info on mbox/maildir... We crossed posts. Still not
sure why one would want this, but interesting to know it's possible.

Sam

On 6/26/05, Sam Folk-Williams <sam.folkwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lisa,
> 
> Is this a production server? If you can handle some downtime, this
> would be a great opporunity to upgrade to postfix from sendmail --
> much easier to configure and generally more secure.
> 
> How it works really depends on your set up, you'd probably have to
> post some config files to be sure... but I would guess that sendmail
> hands it off to procmail and procmail hands it off the the scanners,
> which scan and hand it back to procmail, then procmail probably puts
> it in the mbox. As far as I know, it's not possible to have both mbox
> and maildir, and if it possible it's probably not desirable. Your
> imap/pop3 server (dovecot) would allow users to delete/move messages
> from their imap/pop3 client. While your at it, you might want to
> switch to Courier-imap, and use the maildir format instead of mbox.
> IIRC, dovecot has pretty minimal config options so I'd be curious what
> kind of trouble it is giving you...
> 
> Does this help at all?
> 
> Sam
> 
> On 6/26/05, Lisa C Boyd <lcboyd at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Having had better days, I've tried to "fix" my mail server and I'm
> > growing fuzzy on how a few things are handled. I appreciate any clear
> > direction that can be given :)
> >
> > I have Sendmail set up to receive mail. Then procmail processes it as
> > well as CanIt scanning it for viruses/spam. I'm not sure right now which
> > order that happens in. I've also tried to setup Dovecot for imap/pop3
> > access but that's causing me even more problems so I'm thinking of
> > changing.
> >
> > 1. I have files for each user in /var/spool/mail. What puts the mail
> > there? What deletes the mail from that file? What moves the files from
> > there to the user's home directory?
> >
> > 2. What happens if I have both maildirs and mbox?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > Lisa B.
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