Re: [exim] I'm flummoxed - why would mail get stuck in /var/…

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Cliff Pratt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] I'm flummoxed - why would mail get stuck in /var/lib/mail?


On Mon, 30 May 2005, Cliff Pratt wrote:
<<trim please!>>

> Solved it! It looks like an update to the exim Debian package
> reversed my change from 'mail' format to 'maildir' . It was probably
> my fault for allowing an update to a conf file that I shouldn't have
> or making the change in the 'wrong' place in the first place. Of
> course, it was a later change that I made that had nothing to do with
> delivery that actually *activated* the change!
>
> That and a change in the global filter file that I made caused the problem.

[...]
> Now all I've got to do is figure out how to get the mail out of the
> mail format into maildir format...


plenty of scripts around. Just look for them!
I used something called mb2md-3.20.pl.

Giuliano