advice re mail

Scott Schappell archon at silvertree.org
Wed Sep 24 14:35:37 PDT 2003


David Bear wrote:

>I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder
>and processes it.
>
>The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by
>default.  I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda.
>I will be adding procmail as the mda.  I'm guessing procmail writes
>the same kind of file the postfix does... but here I'm showing my
>ignorance.  
>
>I will be using python as my language and there are modules for MH,
>maildir, mbox, and mailbox...  Anyone have any recommended reading for
>me to better understand what I need to do?
>
>  
>
More than likely it's mbox format.  Since you're running postfix Maildir 
has to be enabled in the config file by the entry home_mailbox=Maildir/. 
If you don't have that configured, you're using mbox formatted mailboxes.


HTH



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