Am 05.09.2011 19:52, schrieb Knute Johnson:
I have a Ubuntu server running dovecot 1.2.9 with mail in mbox. There
are mail files in /var/mail/user and there are mail files in
/home/user/mail that correspond to the IMAP folders. In the config
file details below it shows mail_location:
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u, does that put the INBOX in /var/mail?
yes.
Is INBOX in /var/mail/user to allow local delivery or something? If
I was using POP3 instead would all the mail be in the INBOX?
.. or on your local PC. If you do not want the /var/mail delivery, why
not just change the mail_location to point to the home dir only?
Can I backup these files by just copying and if a file is destroyed,
copy them back?
Yes, as they are plain mbox format.
cheers jc
# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_max_userip_connections: 16
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
imap_capability: IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND
UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 ESEARCH
ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Thanks,
