At 2:45 AM +0100 9/17/07, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged.
Beware. You are asking to have other people tell you who you are. That usually does not work well.
What is the mail_location setting in /etc/dovecot.conf ?
I have no such file.
/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf exists (and is used by my dovecot) and it does not have anything set for mail_location.
Perhaps I should add that I do not use the dovecot delivery agent, as it seems unneeded for my environment. I have Postfix delivering to ~/Maildir/ and dovecot finds my mail just fine.
What are the directories (or some of them) containing mail messages?
~/Maildir/new is where Postfix delivers new messages. ~Maildir/cur is where dovecot moves messages that it has seen. My mail clients do all the work for moving some messages to subdirectories in the maildir tree.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir describes the way dovecot implements the Maildir++ quasi-standard.
Does the client see an inbox folder?
Yes
If so, what directory on the server contains these email messages?
~/Maildir/cur
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