Re: Maildir

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:39:08PM +0100, kasole wrote:
> 1. From /var/mail to ~/Maildir
> How to read alod message after cahnging from /var/mail to ~/Maidir?
> Because all old mail stil in /var/mail

By "read" what do you mean?

For example, the MUA 'mutt' is quite able to read both old and new formats.
In mutt, type "c" (change mailbox) then type /var/mail/didier. It will
happily open it. You can also tag all the messages with "t", then use "s" to
save them somewhere else. If you type "!" as the destination it will save
them in your inbox.

If you want to "read" them with a POP3 client via Courier IMAP, then you
will need to convert your existing stored mails into Maildir format. You can
do this using mutt as described above, or if you have a large number of
users then you can run a script to convert from mbox to Maildir format.
There are some utilities written by qmail users to do this:
http://www.qmail.org/top.html#maildir

> 2. Sqwebmail
> Whan compiling sqwebmail -> "expect" not found. Will not be able to change
> password.
> How to fix that. Sqwebmail work fine but Passwd update trough the web is
> not allowed

Exactly what it says - install "expect".
# cd /usr/ports/lang/expect
# make install clean

"expect" is a program which lets a program interact with another program as
if a user were typing into it. sqwebmail uses expect to run the 'passwd'
program and interact with the prompts to change a password.

This is documented in the file "INSTALL" in the sqwebmail source tarball.
Search for the section entitled "Password changes"

Regards,

Brian.

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