From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 21:36:46 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 36674106566C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAE88FC14 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 47794E80450; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:36:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:36:45 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110310213645.GB677@thought.org> References: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org> <20110310130343.GC2301@catflap.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110310130343.GC2301@catflap.slightlystrange.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:36:46 -0000 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