[hosers-announce] ammended Maildir, POP3S instructions

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sara found a mistake in the instructions I sent out last week. Here's a revised
version. Essentially, you don't need a .qmail if you have a .procmailrc that
delivers to your Maildir as the default recipe, but you do need a .qmail if
you're not using procmail.

1. Make yourself a Maildir in your home directory. (It must be in your home
directory and called 'Maildir' if you want to use POP3s, otherwise
qmail-pop3d won't be able to find it.)

cd ~
maildirmake Maildir

2. If you have no .procmailrc, skip this step. If you have a .procmailrc,
add the following recipe to the end:

:0:
Maildir/

Without this, ALL of your mail not handled by a previous recipe will still
go to the spool.

3. If you're not using procmail, make yourself a ~/.qmail. This contains your
default delivery instruction:

echo ./Maildir/ >.qmail

4. From now on, use qinc instead of inc to incorporate mail into your
inbox. I wrote qinc, so if you find that it's behavior doesn't perfectly
replicate that of inc, or it isn't working properly, please tell me. You
will probably want to inc one last time after you make these changes to be
sure that there is no more mail for you on the spool.

5. If you want to use POP3 over SSL:

If your POP client is fetchmail, change the proto to POP3 and add an 'ssl'
in the query string somewhere. This probably applies to Tom only, and I'm
sure he already knows how to do it.

If you POP client is something else, e.g., Eudora or <shudder> Outlook, you
can find instructions for what to do here:

http://www.doit.wisc.edu/wiscmail/configuring/index.asp

I don't know if there is anyone who will be doing this, but if there is and
you get stuck, ask me about it.

6. After making these changes, test them by sending yourself some mail. If
you find that you've broken your mail setup, I'll be glad to look at it for
you.

I think these instructions are fairly complete. If you run into any
complications, let me know.

-- 
J.
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