Re: usermin postfix compability

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joakim Schramm wrote:

>>Joakim Schramm wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>is it possible to use the "Read Mail" module with Postfix by choosing either Sendmail or Qmail, or can we ask for postfix
>>>compability in a future version? I took the chance to shift over from sendmail to postfix when my server crashed...
>>>
>>
>>As far as I know, postfix uses the same file format as sendmail for storing mail (a single file
>>under /var/spool/mail or /var/mail), so the 'sendmail' option should work fine ..
>>
>>  - Jamie
>>
>>
> 
> Well it can use both that and the $Home/.maildir format, which is the one I have choosen being more qmail like, but otherwise it
> have some more sendmail compability but really is an ESMTP of its own. I can of course experiment and try for settings to make it
> work properly, but if someone alreaddy knew and had it working... well, I think it deserves a setting of its own as it's a rather
> popular package I think. AT least making it a candidate on your future todo list, but I know you are busy with lots of things... :-)


I think the problem is that the options on the config page aren't really clear.
When you set the 'Mail system installed' to 'sendmail' it really means that mail is
in standard single-file mbox format, while the 'qmail' option means that mail is in
maildir format. So you should set that and the other options to whatever is appropriate
for your system, depending on how you have mail delivered.

  - Jamie