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Since I have searched for the maildirmake command on debian now two times (using http://packages.debian.org and apt-cache) with no result, I decided to blog the answer here.

You need to apt-get install courier-base. (and then /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon stop; update-rc.d remove courier-authdaemon. This is not logical (I do not need courier at all, only postfix and mutt), so this post will help me and probably others in the future.

[update]
After hitting save I thought of an easier solution (?), use something like
echo 'function maildirmake { mkdir -p "$1"/{cur,new,tmp}; chmod -R 700 "$1";}' >> ~/.bashrc
[/update]

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Posted by jochem on 2007-01-16, last update on 2007-01-16