Hi,

I am using Dovecot v 2.2.32 and Sendmail 8.15.2

My "folder" config on Dovecot is : mbox:/var/spool2/%u/mail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u But in fact, any email arriving into the mailbox, stays in Sendmail into the file location (by default) : /var/spool/mail/user1 and any folder created, can be reached via Dovecot and is located to /var/spool2/user1

If I want to backup the user1's emails, I need to backup the "dovecot" location ( /var/spool2/user1) but also the Sendmail file location ( /var/spool/mail/user1) If I don't do that, I loose fresh emails which are still into the Sendmail directory, which are not copied into the Dovecot location.. Sounds weird

I would expect to backup only my Dovecot directory and my email client should see only the Dovecot directory I would expect to have small sendmail email file user ( /var/spool/mail/user1 ) and i should't car about these files. Everything should be copied automatically into my Dovecot location

what do you think ?

I think that if you would know more about sendmail, dovecot and linux, you would not think this is strange ;) What does it even matter having to copy multiple locations. That is why we have computers, to do such things automatically for us.