RE: [cobalt-users] Where are Emails Held

["Liam Delahunty" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Sent: 21 July 2003 22:19

>Could someone point me in the direction of where emails are actually stored
>within a Raq4 server.

As others have pointed out mail is stored in the /home/spool/mail/
directory. However, if the user is using an IMAP a/c, then the mail will be
somewhere like:
/home/sites/site#/users/username/mail

With IMAP the primary email store is on the server. If you delete the files
locally, they also get deleted off the server.

Similarly, if you delete the mail from the server, when the client next logs
in, they'll _probably_ lose the "local" mail too.

[TIP! If you have any users that do use IMAP, be a nice guy and backup their
email daily, (ideally as a new file name which you keep for a week or so).
If they need an older email that they've deleted; you can rename the backup
file to something like, "backup_20030721" put it in their directory
structure and they can add the mail store as a new folder locally, browse
it, find what they need, and love you for the admin God that you are.]

Kind regards,
Liam