Robert & Sabine von Knobloch wrote on Wed, 19 May 2004 13:14:40 +0200:
I think that, unless you know exactly what the relevant packages are doing,
you (or, at least, I) have trouble in knowing what is where.
That's all in there ;-) it's in the sections entitled
Accessing Your Mailboxes
Commands for Specific Clients
Using Multiple Clients to Access Your Mailboxes
What may be missing is an explicit statement that the INBOX aka $DEFAULT
usually doesn't reside there but in the MTA's spool directory. That's a
traditional Unix thing because on Unix the mail reading client (MUA) usually
doesn't provide any MTA/MDA facility. That's done by the MTA/MDA of the
system whereas on Windows you usually don't have an MTA/MDA and no incoming
mail spool on the system and the MUA is acting partially in all of the roles.
(assuming you are coming from Windows ;-)
If you change $DEFAULT to a folder in your homedir nothing will ever go to
your inbox in the spool (unless it can work around procmail). If you want to
do that you can just do it. One caveat: if you want to retrieve mail with a
pop client (f.i. from a Windows box) there won't be anything to retrieve ;-)
What you need to remember is that procmail will usually work in your homedir,
so anything which doesn't have an absolute path goes to the homedir. The only
exception is the INBOX, because that is a central location known by all
programs on the system. It's also an exception because you have write
permissions to it, usually you don't have much write permissions outside your
homedir.
Kai
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