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GLEP: 32
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Title: Maildir Location
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Version: $Revision: 1.1 $
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2004/11/03 23:38:05 $
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g2boojum |
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Author: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
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Status: Deferred
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g2boojum |
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Type: Standards Track
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 03-Nov-2004
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Post-History: 03-Nov-2004
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Abstract
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Ebuilds that install mail delivery agents often need to know the default
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location of users' mailbox. When the mailbox is of a maildir type, there is no
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set standard what the name of the directory should be. The most popular
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extensions are "Maildir", ".Maildir" and Gentoo has adopted its own ".maildir"
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name.
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This GLEP proposes a user-definable maildir location.
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Motivation
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To provide the means to change the default location of a maildir, that is
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currently hardcoded in ebuilds.
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The ".maildir" name is not adequate for most situations.
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- "Maildir" is the defacto standard name for maildir mailboxes.
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- People transferring e-mail configuration from other systems prefer to keep
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the original naming conventions.
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- In a virtual hosting environment, having a hidden file in a directory
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dedicated for e-mail delivery is not a plus.
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- All postfix and qmail related documentation gives "Maildir" as an example
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name.
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Rationale
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The following comments were made in a discussion [#bugreport]_ on the Gentoo
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bugzilla
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- The default location should be specified in ``rc.conf``
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- Preventing users from shooting themselves in the foot is not an issue
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Implementation
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A ``maildir.eclass`` has been submitted to Bug 52076 [#bugreport]_.
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Patches that implement features similar to this GLEP have already been
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submitted to Bug 52076 [#bugreport]_.
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MAILDIR variable
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The default location for maildir delivery is specified by the ``$MAILDIR``
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variable. This variable is specified in ``rc.conf``.
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maildir.eclass
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This eclass exports a ``$MAILDIR`` variable to the ebuilds that inherit it. If
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``$MAILDIR`` has not been specified in ``rc.conf`` the eclass exports
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``MAILDIR=.maildir`` for backwards compatibility reasons.
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Patching ebuilds
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Since most ebuilds that currently need to know what the maildir delivery
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location is already take the default ``.maildir`` location into account when
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installing, modifying ebuilds to implement this GLEP is as simple as
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inheriting the ``maildir.eclass`` and substituting ``.maildir`` in the ebuild
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with the ``$MAILDIR`` variable. Care should be taken, to also modify any
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patches or scripts that are used by the ebuild, that already have ``.maildir``
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hardcoded (vpopmail, exim).
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Backwards Compatibility
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The default location is ".maildir", unless it is overridden. This way, there
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would be no backwards compatibility issues.
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References
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.. [#bugreport] Bug 52076 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52076)
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Copyright
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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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