./.maildir/ is a good thing, but I prefer to use ./Mailbox in qmail... but it's not supported by qpopper because it need special configure option: --enable-home-dir-mail=Mailbox probably new USE flag should be added because current two flags "maildir" and "mbox" don't allow to select third way to store mailbox: ~/Mailbox ... also this new USE flag should affect qmail's services configs Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d acpi alsa avi berkdb bindist crypt dga encode gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nl s oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sd l slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
we cant exactly satisfy everyone if you want to use Mailbox i say you just symlink it :P
No, symlink to /var/spool/mbox isn't same as ~/Mailbox. There a number of security issues with /var/spool/mbox sheme - read DJB's docs about it and why he propose ~/Mailbox in qmail instead. Really, I don't understand why Gentoo support /var/spool/mbox style! This directory is just result of bad sendmail's architecture and should be replaced by ~/.maildir/ or at least ~/Mailbox as soon as possible if security is important for you(us).
i wasnt saying use the mbox format :P i was saying symlink Mailbox to the .maildir directory ive read all the maildir/mbox arguements (i personally use maildir on all my servers) ... not everyone can transition easily, and we're not in the habit of preaching mailbox formats so we provide both standards :P
Hmm.. maybe I've very stupid, but I don't understand how I can: > symlink Mailbox to the .maildir directory My Qmail configured to deliver emails to file ~/Mailbox. I want to fetch these emails from ~/Mailbox using qpopper. Nothing criminal yet? Qpopper configured to use ~/.maildir/ and unable to read ~/Mailbox. How symlinking ~/Mailbox to ~/.maildir/ may help me? It has sense in some situations to symlink ~/Mailbox to /var/spool/mbox/USER because they both using same "mbox" format. But ~/.maildir/ format is completely different! I don't understand your idea about symlinking... :(
oh, i think i missed something i thought you were saying you only wanted to change the directory name, not the entire format
> No, symlink to /var/spool/mbox isn't same as ~/Mailbox. There a number of > security issues with /var/spool/mbox sheme - read DJB's docs about it and > why he propose ~/Mailbox in qmail instead. > Really, I don't understand why Gentoo support /var/spool/mbox style! > This directory is just result of bad sendmail's architecture and should > be replaced by ~/.maildir/ or at least ~/Mailbox as soon as possible if > security is important for you(us). If security is your concern, why use qmail and qpopper together? Qmail makes security a priority, whereas qpopper never cared much for security; it has a history of security problems. I would suggest a pop3 daemon that aims for security and supports ~/Mailbox, such as qmail-pop3d or popa3d.
Is qmail-pop3d support ssl? I've selected qpopper just because I need to use POP3S (port 995)...
if qmail-pop3d doesnt then courier-imap supports pop/pop ssl/imap/imap ssl and it works just fine with standard qmail install
qmail-pop3d by itself intentionally does not support ssl. If you need ssl support, then you can use a ssl wrapper, such as stunnel.
fixed in qpopper-4.0.5-r1.
