[sclug] mail setup: getmail, dovecot - and exim?

[John Stumbles]

Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:21:39PM +0100, John Stumbles wrote:

> I think Dickon means you run it to write to /var/mail/user and the users
> pick it up via dovecot.

Ah! [penny drops]. Thinks ... doesn't that means that getmail, dovecot 
and whatever delivers system mail have to agree on and correctly 
implement a locking scheme, with the prize for getting it wrong being a 
screwed inbox? I don't even know what the system mail delivery agent is: 
I'd guess exim since that's installed, and I'd hope that programs that 
generate system mail wouldn't try to deliver it directly.

Getting me thinking that what I really need is to get exim to deliver to 
~/Maildir rather than mbox I had a prod around in /etc/exim4
and found /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf which suggested I run 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Did that, changed the "deliver to mbox or 
Maildir?" option and - ta daa - system mail to my maildir. How hard was 
that? :-)

> We're all on IRC in #sclug on irc.lug.org.uk at times so feel free to
> ask questions there.

TBH I've never used IRC. I've just fired up ksirc (first app with 'irc' 
in the name I came to :-)) and will have a lurk see if I can get the 
hang of it.

-- 
John Stumbles