Thanks Reuben......I got there just as your reply came in......for some reason I didn’t find them before. Found them all as hidden directories under Maildir. Now I can switch off my windows mail server :) Al.

-----Original Message----- From: Reuben Farrelly [mailto:reuben-dovecot@reub.net] Sent: Sunday, 5 March 2006 9:31 PM To: Al Blake Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Really dumb question

On 5/03/2006 11:25 p.m., Al Blake wrote:

Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: where are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have been all over the file system and cant find any files that look right. The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I have looked in all of those and cant find anything. The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just as it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of which are empty :(

Do you see anything if you run:

ls -la Maildir/

in the users directories?

That's where the indexes are often stored..

reuben

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