From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 13:03:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED410106564A for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:03:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg14-2-0-cust883.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com [86.26.3.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90888FC14 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.74 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1PxfWp-000EKL-Ak for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:03:43 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:03:43 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110310130343.GC2301@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q0rSlbzrZN6k9QnT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 Sender: Daniel Bye Cc: Subject: Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:03:45 -0000 --Q0rSlbzrZN6k9QnT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:23:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >=20 > Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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]] =20 If you haven't changed the dovecot config file, look in it for the mail_location setting. For example, mine is set to: mail_location =3D maildir:~/Maildir =46rom what you say above, about backups of ~/Maildir, I would expect you to find something very similar. If that's not what you find, try looking in the location it does point to. If you still have no luck, look at your SMTP server's config and figure out how it handles local deliveries. For example, my exim install is set up to send messages for local delivery through a pipe to the maildrop program, which in turn delivers them to folders under my ~/Maildir according to my filtering rules. Good luck! Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --Q0rSlbzrZN6k9QnT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk14zC8ACgkQixf5fBYiFmrgggCdFVSva+VRXh2OyF54zEKUQzA6 WM0AoIaVOu1SYNbacz2fZ8/xIjA1ngTd =X357 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q0rSlbzrZN6k9QnT--