Re: Pegasus-compatible mailbox?

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

> Hello.
> 
> My intention now is to make well-known freeware mailer Pegasus Mail 
> working with Unix machine over Samba LAN service. It seems rather 
> stupid to retrieve mail by POP3 every minute (with unencrypted 
> passwords!) storing it back to same LAN server. Unfortunately, Pegasus 
> can't parse Unix-style mailbox: it wants every new message being in a
> separate file in some (easy-configurable) directory.

	Alexis wrote it already:

	ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/zmailer/contrib/maildir.tar.gz

	That needs also a small change into the config system to generate
	the  Makefile  from supplied  Makefile.in..

> The clear solution is to change "mailbox" transport. Modified mailbox 
> must store new messages not to appendable file /var/mail/user but to 
> a directory (i.e., /home/user/mail/<random>.cnm).

	Yes, I agree that it should be a feature in 'mailbox', not
	a separate program, but YMMV...  (And I haven't had time.)

> A weak hope: does anybody know about ready solution?
>
> Regards,
> Alexey Lobanov
> aal@cor.neva.ru

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>