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Title: ;INBOX and ;junkmail directories
Post by: JBaker on January 23, 2004, 10:07:24 PM

in a users Maildir
/home/e-smith/files/users/USER/Maildir

there are 2 directories proceeded by a semi-colon
;INBOX and ;junkmail

I assume ;junkmail is where spamassassin saves mail identified as spam.

I have no idea what ;INBOX may be used for....

Also, how would one access these directories as they are proceeded by the ';'???

went hunting for the spot spamassassin puts spam and this is what I found. Am I even in the right hemisphere?

Thanks

-JBaker[/b]

Title: Re: ;INBOX and ;junkmail directories
Post by: tape on January 25, 2004, 05:28:21 PM

Quote from: "JBaker"

in a users Maildir
/home/e-smith/files/users/USER/Maildir

there are 2 directories proceeded by a semi-colon
;INBOX and ;junkmail

I assume ;junkmail is where spamassassin saves mail identified as spam.

I have no idea what ;INBOX may be used for....

Also, how would one access these directories as they are proceeded by the ';'???

went hunting for the spot spamassassin puts spam and this is what I found. Am I even in the right hemisphere?

Thanks

-JBaker[/b]

these directories are created/used by the dovecot imap server. And yes, afaik the ;junkmail one is used by spamassasin.. umm.. i am guessing on this.. never looked at them ;)


Anton

Title: Re: ;INBOX and ;junkmail directories
Post by: rickjones on January 25, 2004, 05:47:34 PM

Quote from: "JBaker"

in a users Maildir
/home/e-smith/files/users/USER/Maildir

there are 2 directories proceeded by a semi-colon
;INBOX and ;junkmail

I assume ;junkmail is where spamassassin saves mail identified as spam.

I have no idea what ;INBOX may be used for....

Also, how would one access these directories as they are proceeded by the ';'???

-JBaker[/b]

From what I've learnt about Dovecot so far, it uses ';' as a hierarchy separator for mailboxes. So if you create mailbox 'fred' there'll be a directory ';fred', if you create a sub-folder 'bill', that will use ';fred;bill' - it won't create a sub-folder at the Linux level.

Furthermore, ;INBOX just seems to be a placeholder, as the actual inbox messages are in cur, new, & tmp directly under Maildir.

To access these directories from the command line just use quotes, or precede the ; with \ (e.g. \;junkmail).

HTH

Title: Re: ;INBOX and ;junkmail directories
Post by: rickjones on January 25, 2004, 05:50:46 PM

Quote from: "JBaker"

in a users Maildir
/home/e-smith/files/users/USER/Maildir

there are 2 directories proceeded by a semi-colon
;INBOX and ;junkmail

I assume ;junkmail is where spamassassin saves mail identified as spam.

I have no idea what ;INBOX may be used for....

Also, how would one access these directories as they are proceeded by the ';'???

-JBaker[/b]

From what I've learnt about Dovecot so far, it uses ';' as a hierarchy separator for mailboxes. So if you create mailbox 'fred' there'll be a directory ';fred', if you create a sub-folder 'bill', that will use ';fred;bill' - it won't create a sub-folder at the Linux level.

Furthermore, ;INBOX just seems to be a placeholder, as the actual inbox messages are in cur, new, & tmp directly under Maildir.

To access these directories from the command line just use quotes, or precede the ; with \ (e.g. \;junkmail).

HTH