In maildir format, you will find cur folder, it should contain all
emails in inbox and you can open it unless it was compressed and if it
was you can use doveadm to decompress it:-
e.g. :- doveadm fs get compress zstd:6:posix:prefix=/
"/mail/zakaria.website/hi@zakaria.website/cur/MESSAGEFILENAME"
I tested this on dovecot 2.3 and it works. To Timo and Aki, this failed
on dovecot 2.4, it throws the following errors, it could be a bug in
this release:-
Debug: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer: Connecting
Debug: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer (pid=32320,uid=0):
Client connected (fd=5)
Debug: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer (pid=32320,uid=0):
Sending version handshake
Error: module /usr/lib/dovecot/libfs_compress.so:
dlsym(fs_compress_init) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libfs_compress.so:
undefined symbol: fs_compress_init
Error: module /usr/lib/dovecot/libfs_compress.so:
dlsym(fs_compress_deinit) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libfs_compress.so:
undefined symbol: fs_compress_deinit
Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/libfs_compress.so:
Module doesn't have init function
These are my relevant configuration, I placed them at top and bottom of
the configuration file and it didnt make any difference:-
mail_plugins = mail_compress fs_compress
fs_compress_write_method = zstd
mail_compress_write_method = zstd
compress_zstd_level = 10
fs_compress_read_plain_fallback = yes
With thanks.
On 2025-02-03 14:31, Zane B Stein via dovecot wrote:
My mail was hosted by a site that no longer handles email. I asked them
if they could send me a file with all my emails in it and they said
sure. I was thinking maybe I would get something I could import into
Outlook such as a .pst or .ost file, or perhaps a .csv file.
What I received was a zipped file and when I opened it there were a
bunch of folders with emails in them in some strange format (each one
with a . in front of it, such as .NEWMAIL ), plus a bunch of files
along with the folders such as dovecat.index, dovecatindex.cache,
dovecot.index.log2, dovecot.list.inex, divecot.mailbox and others with
a dovecot prefix, plus one called maildirsize and one called
subscriptions.
I have no idea how to read the emails in this format.
Can someone tell me how I can access the emails in this set of files?
Feel free to ask if you need more information before you can answer.
If I need a special program to read the files, is there an easy one
available that is user friendly for someone with no experience with
dovecot files?
Thank you.
Zane B Stein
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