Using unix mail with maildir format

J65nko BSD j65nko at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 01:24:21 GMT 2005


On 6/29/05, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix "mail"
> program?
> 
> I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite
> happy with It…
> I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format…
> 

The program "maildir2mbox" (part of qmail), can convert a Maildir into
mbox format. See http://qmail.bzimage.dk/man/man1/maildir2mbox.html.
There is also a short shell script called "qail" which runs
maildir2mbox and then "mail".

=Adriaan=


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