horde webmail location of folders

[sammykona]

Hi,
When I create folders in webmail and move email messages there, where are these messages physically located on the server? They're definitely not in /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/Maildir/ this location only contains what is in the primary POP account (Inbox).

Thanks

 

[sieb@]

Horde is IMAP, and as far as I know, they are under: /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/user/Maildir/

 

[sammykona]

That's what I thought too ... but nope, the emails that are moved to a folder in Horde are not there in /var/qmail/mailnames/domain/*

 

[sammykona]

Found it ... the folders created in horde are created as hidden folders in /var/qmail

so If you create a new folder called "friends", you'll have:

/var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/popname/Maildir/.friends

So now we know that the migration manager will not grab any folders that the user may have created via webmail (the reason this thread got started).

 

[activatemedia]

question on horde folder location

I am new to plesk so bare with me. I see the path to the horde folders, but how do I actually access them? I am moving mail info from another server to this one, for example inbox, address books, etc.. I appreciate the help.

 

[sammykona]

I suppose the easiest way would be to login to the shell, change directory to the pop mail accounts and then create a .tar file

cd /var/qmail/mailnames/

tar -cvf domain.com.tar domain.com

you'll then have a .tar file containing all POP mail info

then copy to new server and:

tar -xvf domain.com.tar

Sam

 

[activatemedia]

thank you

One more question. How do I get access to the directories with plesk? or at least some other way of accessing them on my server that Im copying them too?

 

[sammykona]

I don't think you can do it from within plesk, you'll need to login as root to your server with SSH .. you can use a free shh program (putty)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


Sam