using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? In late DEcember, 2007 my FreeBSD server started having serious problems that were over my head. I asked this list for help but no one could help me; long-story-short, a guy from the DFW area, a self-taught net-wizard came to my rescue. Via the yahoo

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-09 Thread Foo JH
On 3/10/2011 9:23 AM, Gary Kline wrote: Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? Disclaimer: I don't really know much about dovecot, except that it's a much better IMAP daemon than courier - I don't think dovecot handles SMTP: in other words it does not handle incoming mails. What services

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:23:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? > > In late DEcember, 2007 my FreeBSD server started having serious > problems that were over my head. I asked this list for help but no > one could help me; long-story-short, a guy from t

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:38:21AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: > On 3/10/2011 9:23 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > >Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? > Disclaimer: I don't really know much about dovecot, except that it's > a much better IMAP daemon than courier - I don't think dovecot > handles SMTP: in

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:03:43PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:23:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? > > [[ ... ]] > > If you haven't changed the dovecot config file, look in it for the > mail_location setting. Fo

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of March 10, 2011 1:36:45 PM -0800, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: I did try pointing mutt -f at my saved backup /usr/tmp/.../Maildir. Nothing. My copies of saved mail are there, but not what was in the unread queue. I was testing out mutt from a lapt

Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored?

2011-03-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:22:45PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of March 10, 2011 1:36:45 PM -0800, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: > > > I did try pointing mutt -f at my saved backup > > /usr/tmp/.../Maildir. Nothing. My copies of saved mail are > > there, but not what was