[Evolution-users] Local delivery account

[janos]

On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 01:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 
> If you wish the account and mail to be in a separate hierarchy on the
> sidebar, then you need an account of type "Standard Unix mbox spool
> file".
> 
Very interesting. I do have a postfix mail server on my machine, and
have /var/spool/mail/ and /var/spool/postfix/ directories on the
machine. Everything works fine.

The /var/spool/mail/janos file is (partially listed):
Quote
From MAILER_DAEMON Wed Jul 13 17:52:11 2022
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:52:11 -0400
From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at andraslinux>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
...
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is
not
a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
software.
...
Unquote

OK. So just for fun in my Evo I created an account of type "Standard
Unix mbox spool file". However, Evo could not read it and reported an
error:
Quote
Error while Storing changes in folder “janosUNIX : INBOX”.

Could not lock “/var/spool/mail/janos”
Unquote

OK, no problem, just my curiosity of the internal workings of mail
system. My understanding is that originally the mail system in UNUX was
developed with the purpose of sending messages from one user to another
in the same UNIX machine. Later on it was adopted to networked UNIX
machines using smtp protocol. Finally, with Internet and IP the domain
thing completed the present email system.

My system is Gentoo Linux. It looks like the /var/spool/mail/ directory
is part of the standard distribution without any user files unless
there is something like postfix or nullmailer installed.

Any comments?

Just curious - Janos
-- 
sent from andraslinux machine
https://jgklinux.jangkom.com/


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