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Old 01-06-2015, 01:28 AM   #1
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GNU Mailutils 2.99.98 is not saving mail in the correct directory


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?
 
  


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