Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:36:45 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored? Message-ID: <20110310213645.GB677@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110310130343.GC2301@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org> <20110310130343.GC2301@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:03:43PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:23:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? > > [[ ... ]] > > 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 = maildir:~/Maildir > > From 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. By SMTP ["Simple"??] I'm guessing you are referring to my sendmail. Yes?/no? I've always considered sendmail as a transport agent, period. I have poked around in /etc/mail and wasn't sure what to look for. I can grep -r and find the dovecot config. I haven't touched it. I did try pointing mutt -f at my saved backup /usr/tmp/.../Maildir. Nothing. My copies of saved mail are there, but not what was in the unread queue. I was testing out mutt from a laptop and that has to have been when I accidentially deleted stuff. Too bad there isn't a page on "howto set up a mailserver" ... for dimwits gary > > Good luck! > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ -- 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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