Hi all.
I have a gentoo box with opensmtpd / GNU mailutils setup to read system mail and mailutils is giving me issues on where it saves mail.
Gentoo's default mailbox is a maildir in the uses home directory and mailutils default mailbox is mbox in /var/spool/mail. So in after modifying the mailutils.rc to:
Code:
mailbox {
mailbox-pattern "maildir:///home/${user}/.maildir";
mailbox-type maildir;
};
I was able to get mailutils specify that im using a maildir, to point to the location of users maildir, and read mail that was delivered; however a problem lurks in where mailutils stored the read mail. instead of using maildir it created and used a mbox.
Reading the manual states the the mailbox-type configuration variable overides the hardcoded fallback and that the only other choice I would have is to modify the default variable at compile time however the ebuild file has a commented out block showing that doing that causes the build tests to fail and the package not to build. So im left with a question to someone who has configured mailutils becfore. Have I somehow misread the configuration instructions at
http://mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html#SEC20 and misconfigured the rc file?
