Re: [exim] mail delivered, clients don't see it

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Author: Magnus Holmgren
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] mail delivered, clients don't see it
On Thursday 03 August 2006 14:19, Zbigniew Szalbot took the opportunity to
say:
> Hello,
>
> On 3 Aug 2006 at 13:13, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:09 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:05, Zbigniew Szalbot took the opportunity
> > > to
> > >
> > > say:
> > > > > If you're using maildir, you should have a maildir_format
> > > > > somewhere...
> > > >
> > > > Not sure I understand - the mailboxes are in
> > > > /home/USER_NAME/Mail/Maildir Mail files have names like
> > > > qJ3EZSE-54119, etc.
> > >
> > > OK, that sounds fine.
> >
> > No - thats exim's mail in a directory format, *not* maildir, which
> > should have 3 directories within the maildir directory (cur, tmp & new),
> > and the filenames within them do *not* look like exim queue identifiers.
> >
> > You do need the maildir_format directive.


Of course. Sorry, I had to much in my head.

> Yes, you were right. But I guess Magnus is right in saying that I only have
> what comes with cygwin. Does this mean I have to revert to /var/mail ?


That, or you can try compiling Dovecot, for example, under Cygwin.
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/OSCompatibility and
http://www.google.com/search?q=dovecot+cygwin .

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