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@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@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@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@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.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

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