From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 13:15:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D44416A4BF for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B190C43F85 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 6008 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 20:14:51 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO mygirlfriday.info) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 20:14:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 17932 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 20:15:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by major.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 20:15:19 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:15:18 -0500 From: Gary To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1860000.1064952918@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <20030930194200.36741.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030930194200.36741.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:15:27 -0000 Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42:00 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: > In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname > (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This > was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted from server. Now > with IMAP i think i need to do something for it. Is there a way to direct > mails to /usr. Does this message redirection create any problem in > configuring MUA?. If you set up qmail to use /Maildir/ format, mail is stored in each users home dir under his/hers Maildir, so it would be under /usr/home/whomever... even root, for security reasons is assigned or aliased to a user. A Maildir is made with the command maildirmake as that user, in his $HOME. You can put in a Maildir in skel and it will automatically make a Maildir for each new user. Inside each Maildir there are 3 dirs, new, cur, tmp.. This is automatically created with the maildirmake command. Don't worry, if you will use IMAP, any MUA that can use IMAP will read the dirs properly... Providing you use a IMAP client that supports Maildir, as mentioned, Bincimap or Courier. -- Gary