Questions tagged [maildir]
Maildir is an email storage format where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory.
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Deliver mails in Maildir in /var/spool/mail with Postfix
I search for hours without finding the solution and it drives me crazy.
Is it possible to ensure, without using Procmail, that Postfix delivers emails in the form of Maildir {cur,new,tmp} in
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how to setup the folder separator a "/ " instead of a dot "." in imap maildir postfix and dovecot
The Question is already in the title.
I want to setup dovecot and postfix with maildir , but I do not want the dot "." as folder separator. I like to use a folder system like "/"
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Coexistence and migration to Dovecot
We have an environment with >5,000 mailboxes and we need to coexist/migrate the emails from one dovecot to another dovecot environment.
The migration data includes:
email (sync using imapsync)
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Convert a raw email message to plain text in linux
I'm in the cur folder of a maildir store.
I want to cat a message .. pipe it to a command .. and have the body of the message spit out. Simple.
Example:
If its a mime message .. and there is a ...
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Correct Namespace config for Sent/Drafts/Trash with dovecot
Dovecot seems to configure namespaces by default (conf.d/10-mail.conf and conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf) this way:
# 10-mail.conf
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
inbox =...
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Quota in Postfix, Dovecot with Maildir Not working
I've some problem with quota with Maildir. If I install a plugin in Thunderbird that shows Quota's it's working and my quota is like 300%. But I can still send and recieve mails.
I'm not running any ...
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Creating missing Maildir++ folders in Dovecot
I'm running Dovecot on my mail server and storing messages in the Maildir++ format. I have the following directories (as well as the usual Maildir directories) in /var/mail/user:
.Something.2013
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Debian mail server's Maildir folder with too many files causing disk I/O to go on high load
I have a Debian mail server running Postfix, Courier and Maildir, with disks on EXT3 filesystem.
I have noticed that when I use my webmail application (Squirrelmail, in this case). It gets some kind ...
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Migrate existing Maildir to Dovecot Maildir sub folder
I have an existing Maildir (one file per message) from a backup:
root@host:/var/vmail/myname/cur# ls -lha | head -n 7
total 347M
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 844K Nov 5 10:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 vmail vmail 4....
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I want to import multiple Thunderbird profile to dovecot for archiving
I'm planning to combine my received emails from the last 10-20 years on a server. I've mainly been using Thunderbird on various Windows and Linux computers, so I believe the email formats are mostly ...
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Splitting Exim mailboxes on two different disks
I have inherited a rather small server and am forced to try splitting the e-mail accounts served by Exim on two (or more) disks (different mount points).
I was searching the internet for a solution ...
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Courier does not show IMAP Maildir folders
I am in the process of moving a courier IMAP server from one machine to another. Maildirs have been set up, all the messages have been copied successfully. There are a few IMAP folders that show up in ...
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Dovecot mdbox to mbox/MailDir/eml conversion
Is there any way to convert Dovecot's mdbox/dbox to mbox, MailDir or eml format (or any other easy to import format)?
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Postfix not adding email size flag with maildirs
Dovecot requires emails in maildirs to have ,S= -flag on emails to be compressed, but I cannot seem to find a way to make Postfix to add this flag. Is there some configuration option or is there other ...
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How do I get Courier Maildrop to log data?
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I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a virtual machine. It is the mail server for a small medical clinic. We are trying to move mail filtering from the client-side to the server-side, and I am ...
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Sendmail/dovecot/procmail: Maildir permissions
I've just spent several hours in the middle of the night trying to migrate a Maildir setup from Centos 5.6 to Centos 7.2. I found dozens of hits on how to do this, all completely useless - a few gave ...
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Attribute caching of dovecot maildir boxes over NFS
I admin a mail server cluster: there're two different hosts that use a common NFS share to store maildir. Dovecot is the LDA.
CPU load on NFS is really high, although real i/o operation on the disk ...
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How pipe email to PHP with Maildirs
I used to pipe incoming emails using:
|/path/to/php/script in .forward file at /home folder.
But the actual system I'm working on is based on Maìldir instead MBOX. So that solution does not work.
I ...
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Script encrypting Mails on Server [Maildir/GPG]
The idea is to encrypt [cronjob] all mails older than x days with a certain [per user] PGP Key.
Mails are stored in Maildir format.
Are you guys aware of an existing solution to this?
Or maybe ...
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How to set up squirrelmail read from Maildir
I have the problem that my squirrelmail is not reading mails from Maildir. So my Inbox in squirrelmail is always empty. How can I fix it?
This should be the path for Maildir: /home/someuser/Maildir. ...
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