From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 04:59:57 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 59 ************************************************** Friday 28 February 2003 Number 59 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: INFO dir : John Poltorak 2 Re: SpamAssassin : Yuri Dario" 3 Re: IMAPD : Steve Wendt" 4 Re: IMAPD : Steve Wendt" 5 Re: IMAPD : John Poltorak 6 Re: IMAPD : Nicholas Sheppard **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:22:54 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: INFO dir On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:27:35PM +0100, Andreas Buening wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > > > > Under FHS what would be the correct location for GNU Info files? > > > > I's like to put them in /usr/share/info but there doesn't seem to be any > > way of getting configure to set this location up. Everything always gets > > dumped into /usr/info. > > > > Is there anything which can be done to override this location? > > ./configure --infodir=/share/usr/info > > or if you don't want to reconfigure > > make install infodir=/share/usr/info Does this work for you? The infodir option seems to get ignored when I use it. > > Bye, > Andreas > > -- > One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, > One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them > In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- John **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 08:53:48 +0100 (CET) From: "Yuri Dario" Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Hi, >It appears to be written in Perl, so I guess it ought to run on OS/2... >Anyone tried running it? I got it running under my build of perl5.8, was not working with previous perl releases. But I got it working only in standalone mode, e.g. getting email on stdin and output on stdout with headers changed. The daemon mode is not working, because of errors in socket communications (I think it is using ascii sockets instead of binary ones). So I moved to bogofilter (that is written in C). Bye, Yuri Dario /* * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy * http://www.quasarbbs.net/yuri * http://www.teamos2.it * http://www.opera.com/os2/ */ **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 09:50:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Steve Wendt" Subject: Re: IMAPD On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 21:17:52 +1100 (AED), Nicholas Sheppard wrote: >extra mailboxes are kept in the user's home directory, e.g. >{mail.mydomain.net}blah corresponds to a mail file $HOME/blah on >mail.mydomain.net. I suppose it's possible to make sendmail to send mail >to these mailboxes if you want but I don't much about sendmail. No, I think you have to use procmail for that (which sendmail can invoke). ----------- "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Steve Wendt" Subject: Re: IMAPD On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:05:52 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: >There is a procmail for OS/2, although it is a little out of date, and >I've never really used it much. The main reason people use it is for >filtering mail, which it can do, as part of local delivery. Right - it's good for invoking spamassassin. ;) ----------- "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:05:52 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: IMAPD On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:50:58AM -0800, Steve Wendt wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 21:17:52 +1100 (AED), Nicholas Sheppard wrote: > > >extra mailboxes are kept in the user's home directory, e.g. > >{mail.mydomain.net}blah corresponds to a mail file $HOME/blah on > >mail.mydomain.net. I suppose it's possible to make sendmail to send mail > >to these mailboxes if you want but I don't much about sendmail. > > No, I think you have to use procmail for that (which sendmail can invoke). No, procmail is just another local deliver agent. Sendmail can be configured to use anything you want it to. Sendmail's role is in SMTP transfer between hosts. Once delivery to a host has completed, sendmail leaves local mail handling to whatever you choose as appropriate to the task. Personally, I use something called QYPMAIL which I can configure to do whatever I want. There is a procmail for OS/2, although it is a little out of date, and I've never really used it much. The main reason people use it is for filtering mail, which it can do, as part of local delivery. > > ----------- > "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, > while bad people will find a way around the laws." > - Plato (427-347 B.C.) > > -- John **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 21:17:52 +1100 (AED) From: Nicholas Sheppard Subject: Re: IMAPD On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, John Poltorak wrote: > What I'm not clear about is how it interfaces with sendmail... > > I know what the local mail delivery agent needs to do to transfer mail > from sendmail incoming directory into a users pop mailbox, but I don't > know what needs to be done when running IMAPD. As I understand it, IMAP and POP3 interface to sendmail in the same way. The normal sendmail setup puts all of your incoming mail into a particular mailbox (/var/spool/mail/$USER or whatever) and the mail server (whether it is IMAP or POP3) reads it from there. At least, that's what worked for me when I tested it. IMAP allows you to access more than one mailbox; in Pine, at least, the extra mailboxes are kept in the user's home directory, e.g. {mail.mydomain.net}blah corresponds to a mail file $HOME/blah on mail.mydomain.net. I suppose it's possible to make sendmail to send mail to these mailboxes if you want but I don't much about sendmail. > Is there a simple overview of how IMAP works anywhere? IMAP is defined in RFC 2060. Nicholas S. |\ Location: Wollongong, Australia | The optimist thinks this is the best of |\ E-mail: nps at zeta.org.au | all possible worlds, and the pessimist | WWW: http://www.zeta.org.au/~nps | knows it is. | ---> Cynicism & Negativity | - Robert Oppenheimer