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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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Author: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net> |
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Status: Deferred |
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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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This document has been placed in the public domain. |
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