possible for mailbox to be in ~$USER/mailbox ?

[ruttiger]

i'm trying to move the location of the user mailboxes. anyone have any idea if this is possible? i'd rather break them down into subdirs, then have one huge directory of all my email users.

thanks

 

[jad]

not that i necessarily know better, and i do actually like sendmail, but i believe that qmail does that for you if you want, and it's apparently very easy to set up.

 

[ruttiger]

thanks. i agree, my life would be much easier with qmail. but, i already paid the $50 for the O'Reilly Sendmail book, and i've learned enough so far to get by, and that sendmail is more powerful...so, i'll hang in there.

i ended up switching to IMAP instead of POP3. Sendmail doesnt handle mailboxes, it passes the email to the local agent for doing that...so it's not a sendmail problem...but, i know the default qmail thing is the Maildir structure, which is great.

thanks much,
i'll post how this all works out later.

blake

 

[jad]

our UNIX users just use the standard Solaris mail tools ...

our PC users use POP3 and access it from pegasus, mounting home drives (with samba) from our servers ... that is our way around

 

[ruttiger]

i switched over to IMAP. any other mailbox other than Inbox is stored in the user's home directory (or wherever you decide to set the mailbox dir).

php has an incredible imap library...makin life simple again...so nice.