Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:23:34 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored? Message-ID: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org>
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Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? In late DEcember, 2007 my FreeBSD server started having serious problems that were over my head. I asked this list for help but no one could help me; long-story-short, a guy from the DFW area, a self-taught net-wizard came to my rescue. Via the yahoo IM application and thanks to a fellow here with two strong arms, this network guy set me up with a pfSense firewall (on an old Kayak), and fixed/changed stuff on my server. He installed some mail tool called dovecot and deployed that on my server. At the time I was running FreeBSD everywhere except one of my four other computers. He also found something to let me still use mutt. I prefer CLI and text--8859-1 or ASCII. Hand on keyboard; my should got destroyed many years ago so the less motion between keyboard and mouse, the better. This morning I found the 15 or 20 messages in my incoming mail queue gone. Vanished. ---I do of course backup stuff in my ~/Maildir on my server. I checked my bup. Nothing. Does anybody know what this dovecot does with its incoming mail files? I only do one daily backup that it ccron'd for 03:00 [[along with a bunch of other critical directories, of course]] If I knew where else to tar -cyvf <whatever> I would do that, especially with mail. Particularly things that I consider non-urgent. thanks for any clues! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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