[Dovecot] Really dumb question

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 5/03/2006 11:25 p.m., Al Blake wrote:
> Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am 
> impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away 
> from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have 
> copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap 
> mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: where 
> are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have been all 
> over the file system and cant find any files that look right.
> The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I 
> have looked in all of those and cant find anything.
> The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just as 
> it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of which 
> are empty :(

Do you see anything if you run:

ls -la Maildir/

in the users directories?

That's where the indexes are often stored..

reuben