Re: Managing Maildirs

From: Bill Campbell (freebsd_at_celestial.com)
Date: 12/19/03

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    On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Eric Anderson wrote:
    >Bill Campbell wrote:
    >
    >>Number one above will do the trick and is far more efficient than using the
    >>``find ...-exec'', although you might want to modify it to only nuke mail
    >>over a certain age. To nuke all trash over 30 days old:
    >>
    >> find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm
    >>
    >
    >On a totally unrelated note, I'm thinking about switching from mbox
    >formatted mailboxes using imap, to a more robust and faster imap server
    >that uses maildirs. My problem is, I have pop users, imap users, and
    >elm/mutt/pine users on the same box. Does elm/mutt/pine work ok with
    >maildirs? What about sendmail? What should I be looking out for?

    We made that same switch a couple of years ago at a customer's with about
    500 very active mail accounts. I had to write a perl script to extract
    mail in U.W. IMAP's proprietary MBX format to Maildir, but that was the
    only thing at all difficult.

    I use mutt with Maildir boxes directly, and found much to my surprise that
    it defaulted to a secure connection to our courier-imap server when I asked
    for an IMAP connection. Pine should be no problem as it was probably the
    first MUA to use IMAP, being developed in the same group at the University
    of Washington where Mark Crispin is the IMAP guru. I wouldn't know about
    Elm since I haven't used it since switching to mutt many years ago. I
    would be surprised if it deals with Maildir boxes directly.

    I can't address sendmail since I have never used it, and probably never
    will (at least not unless it's under duress). Postfix can deliver to
    Maildir boxes. Our setup doesn't use the MTA to store mail directly, but
    we use deliver with a perl module handling the Maildir boxes after scanning
    and classifying the mail. Deliver is used much the same way as procmail
    using pipes.

    Bill 

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