Re: Draft manuals (qmail)

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Re: Draft manuals (qmail)"):
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> Perhaps it's reasonable to specify that every mail aware program
> supports the MAIL environmental variable.  As qmail's default behavior
> is to deliver mail to ~user/Mailbox in standard unix mailbox format,
> this should suffice.

But does it use the same locking strategy as our other mailers ?

> Additional recommendations or specifications which open the door to
> maildir compatability (e.g. that movemail be used to retrieve locally
> stored mail -- allowing, at worst, the administrator to set policy by
> replacing movemail) might also be reasonable.

This can't be done sensibly for mailers like mailx, Elm and Pine which
manipulate and leave messages in the inbox, and incurs extra delay
with (eg) mh.

Ian.