mailx and Postfix w/Maildir

[debiandude]

I love opening up a terminal and getting that you have mail in /var/spool/mail/michael messages. Its so convient. However, yesterday I switched Postfix to use the Maildir format with solid-pop3d (a pop server w/Maildir support). Now mailx still checks for mail in /var/spool/mail/user and of couse finds none. How can I tell it that mail is now in ~/Maildir instead.

[freebsd]

Qmail comes with a utility called maildirwatch for that purpose. It may or may not work with Postfix. Check Postfix mailing list and see if such tool is available.

As for the migration, you need to setup environment variable Mail to the path of Maildir like: $HOME/Maildir

[ 16 June 2001: Message edited by: freebsd ]