Maildir Format

[Daniel Staal]

On Fri, February 17, 2012 12:16 pm, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail
> and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched
> the difference between mbox and maildir formats, and I'm going to go
> with the Maildir. I'm running everything on ZFS, so many small files
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> My problem is, before I made any of these changes and was using the
> default sendmail setup, I was using /usr/bin/mail to read my periodic
> and cron outputs. However, after I installed postfix with the Maildir
> delivery option, I quickly realized that /usr/bin/mail doesn't support
> Maildir.
>
> Can anyone suggest a MUA which has support for Maildir that I can use?
> I'm looking for something simple and command line, similar to
> /usr/bin/mail that I can use until I get around to installing Dovecot.
> The only one I know of off the top of my head is mutt. I've never had
> much use, and thus experience, with unix MUAs.
>
> Thank you.

Honestly, for one or two pure-text emails a day, I find 'less' on the most
recent files in the Maildir folder works fairly well, especially for just
a couple of days...

Daniel T. Staal

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