[Dovecot] Maildir format

[Roman Gelfand]

I am not sure where I went wrong here.  The wiki says...

By default Dovecot uses Maildir++ directory layout for organizing
mailbox directories. This means that all the folders are directly
inside ~/Maildir directory:

~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the
messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new
messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients.

~/Maildir/.folder/ is a mailbox folder

~/Maildir/.folder.subfolder/ is a subfolder of a folder (ie. "folder/subfolder")

You can also optionally use the "fs" layout by appending :LAYOUT=fs to
mail_location. This makes the folder structure look like:

~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the
messages for INBOX, just like with Maildir++.

~/Maildir/folder/ is a mailbox folder

~/Maildir/folder/subfolder/ is a subfolder of a folder



Here is my folders.  Though there are emails in the inbox, I am not
seeing anything in new/ or cur/ folders.

root at mbx:/etc/dovecot# ls -la /vmail/domain.tld/j.doe/Maildir/
drwx------ 5 999 mail  4096 Feb 14 10:06 .
drwx------ 3 999 mail  4096 Feb 12 19:53 ..
drwx------ 2 999 mail  4096 Feb 14 10:02 cur
-rw------- 1 999 mail 17408 Feb 14 10:02 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 999 mail  2896 Feb 14 10:06 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 999 mail    51 Feb 14 10:06 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 999 mail     8 Feb 12 19:53 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 999 mail     0 Feb 12 19:53 dovecot-uidvalidity.52fc176c
drwx------ 2 999 mail  4096 Feb 14 10:02 new
drwx------ 2 999 mail  4096 Feb 14 09:59 tmp

root at mbx:/etc/dovecot# ls -la  /vmail/domain.tld/j.joe/Maildir/new
total 8
drwx------ 2 999 mail 4096 Feb 14 10:02 .
drwx------ 5 999 mail 4096 Feb 14 10:06 ..


root at mbx:/etc/dovecot# ls -la  /vmail/domain.tld/j.joe/Maildir/cur
total 8
drwx------ 2 999 mail 4096 Feb 14 10:02 .
drwx------ 5 999 mail 4096 Feb 14 10:06 ..



On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Steffen Kaiser
<skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Roman Gelfand wrote:
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>> I see where the mail box meta data is kept.  But don't the actual
>> emails.  I was under the impression the impression the email was kept,
>> on the server, as .eml.
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> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
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> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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