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Horde / IMP mail folder location?

Hi,

I have an old server on which I use Horde / IMP to access my e-mail. I have my e-mail stored in various folders

inbox, old, receipts, work, sent-mail, etc etc etc

I am moving over to a new server and I need to copy all my mail.

I cannot find where horde stores its mail folders. I have searched and searched and searched all over the server and I have spent 2 hours googling for the location.

I have found my inbox which is in

/var/qmail/mailnames/[my site name]/[my pop3 account name]/Maildir/cur

but I have no idea where mail goes to when I move it to a folder in Horde.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer

Luke

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pjedmond

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pjedmond

The installed:

imp/config/servers.php

Should give you the necessary information relating to the mail server concerned.

or:

telnet servername 143

should print out details of the server concerned.

Once you know what server is handling your mail, we'll know where to look for the mail.

HTH:)

lukeMH

ASKER

The non-commented portion of servers.php is below

$servers['imap'] = array(
'name' => 'IMAP Server',
'server' => 'localhost',
'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
'port' => 143,
'folders' => '',
'namespace' => 'INBOX.',
'maildomain' => $DomainName,
'smtphost' => 'localhost',
'realm' => $DomainName,
'preferred' => ''
);

$servers['cyrus'] = array(
'name' => 'Cyrus IMAP Server',
'server' => 'localhost',
'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
'port' => 143,
'folders' => '',
'namespace' => 'INBOX.',
'maildomain' => $DomainName,
'realm' => $DomainName,
'preferred' => ''
);

$servers['pop'] = array(
'name' => 'POP3 Server',
'server' => 'localhost',
'protocol' => 'pop3',
'port' => 110,
'folders' => '',
'namespace' => '',
'maildomain' => $DomainName,
'realm' => $DomainName,
'preferred' => ''
);

$servers['exchange'] = array(
'name' => 'Exchange 5.5 server',
'server' => 'localhost',
'protocol' => 'imap',
'port' => 143,
'folders' => '',
'namespace' => '',
'maildomain' => $DomainName,
'realm' => '',
'preferred' => ''
);

I assumed that the mail was being stored by imp/horde as the folders were created in horde, and do not appear with the nice normal q-mail inbox

Thanks

Luke

lukeMH

ASKER

Forgot to say that I thought telnetting to port 143 gave no response. Then I realised I had the client set to SSH and not telnet. Changed it and got the following

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2003 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.

So its Courier-IMAP right?

Luke

pjedmond

Absolutely - :)

Id expect the files associated with this to be in:

/usr/lib/courier-imap/

probably the share folder.

HTH:)

pjedmond

The other probable location is in the $HOME directory if all users have an account on the system.

If neither of these are correct, have a look at the configuration file in

/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/

or possibly in the /etc/

folder. Hopefully that'll end your search.

HTH:)

pjedmond

Qmail is maily a replacement for sendmail as the 'delivery agent' for mail. The folders bit is handled by the IMAP functionality. The courier-IMAP website is:

http://www.courier-mta.org/

Obviously add another question if you need further help.

:)

lukeMH

ASKER

I found the files by mistake with an ls -a in shell. I was previously using ftp to look (as I wanted to download the mail directories by ftp)

The files are dot files (hidden) grrrrrr!

They are in /var/qmail/mailnames/[my site name]/[my pop3 account name]/Maildir

I have no idea why the inbox is not hidden but all the other folders are. Oh well never mind, I have found them now and started downloading them. Thankyou for sending me in the right direction

Kind Regards

Luke