Mail.app and sendmail

May 07, '01 05:02:42AM

Contributed by: geoffsaulnier

[Editor's note: See Geoff's comments; apparently this only works the first time you try it! There's an alternative suggested in the comments which may work better.]

I have managed to get Mail.app to handle sendmail mail by cheating... I am assuming that you're running sendmail OK but have been using mail or pine or somesuch to read mail.

Do this:

in the terminal, copy the folder heirarchy of another of your mailboxes (in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes).

Switch into the newly created directory, and instead of mbox, do:

ln -s /var/mail/user_name mbox

where user_name is your username. Restart Mail.app and you should now be able to manage mail downloaded from sendmail in Mail.app

If anyone knows a better way, preferably from within Mail.app instead of silly hacking, please let me know!!!

Cheers,
Geoff Saulnier - Mac, *NIX, perl, hack!!

[Editor's note: I'm not running sendmail locally, so I have not tried this myself]

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