This article covers the raw storage structure\u00a0of email on your account. All email is stored in a Maildir<\/a> format, which stores email in separate files in a directory named Directories in bold:<\/em><\/p>\n This is represented, on the server as a collection of directories in An email may be named anything; the filename provided above is a convention of our hosting platform<\/a>. An email\u00a0may be named anything; these files will be reconciled to Dovecot’s cache and treated as email \u00a0if present in Of interest, unixtime delivery is the date a message was delivered, so all files are presented chronologically. Flags, if specified, include specific IMAP commands, such as whether a message was relocated to trash (“T” flag), starred (“F” flag), or viewed (“S” flag). The latter two are used for our approach to Inbox Zero<\/a>, which by the bye, is used religiously for support tickets.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n As touched upon above in the email\u00a0component breakdown<\/span>, filenames are inconsequential and only provide a means to optimize\u00a0IMAP access. Therefore, when migrating email from a previous hosting provider, email may be named anything, provided it is located within the\u00a0 Overview This article covers the raw storage structure\u00a0of email on your account. All email is stored in a Maildir format, which stores email in separate files in a directory named Mail within a user’s home directory. Sample structure Directories in bold: . \u251c\u2500\u2500 cur \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 1440231926.M975332P7880V05000DAI00000000000001D1_0.sol.apnscp.com,S=1254:2, \u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-acl-list \u251c\u2500\u2500…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[58],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-8486","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-e-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8486\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.okra.host\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mail<\/code> within a user’s home directory<\/a>.<\/p>\nSample structure<\/h2>\n
.\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 cur<\/strong>\r\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 1440231926.M975332P7880V05000DAI00000000000001D1_0.sol.apnscp.com,S=1254:2,\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-acl-list\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot.index\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot.index.cache\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot.index.log\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-keywords\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot.mailbox.log\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-uidlist\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-uidvalidity\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 dovecot-uidvalidity.4cb493c8\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 new<\/strong>\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 old\r\n<\/strong>|-- .Spam\r\n<\/strong>| |-- cur<\/strong>\r\n| |-- dovecot.index\r\n| |-- dovecot.index.log\r\n| |-- dovecot-keywords\r\n| |-- dovecot-uidlist\r\n| |-- new<\/strong>\r\n| `-- tmp<\/strong>\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 subscriptions\r\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 tmp\r\n<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Component breakdown<\/h3>\n
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new<\/code>, cur<\/code>, und tmp<\/code>
\ntmp<\/code> serves as a scratch directory for messages as they are written to disk. New messages are delivered to new<\/code>, and once downloaded by a mail client, moved to cur<\/code>.<\/li>\n.Spam<\/code>
\nAny directory, prefix with a dot\u00a0(“.”) is a separate IMAP folder. Each IMAP folder has its own set of mail storage directories (new,<\/code> cur<\/code>, tmp<\/code>). IMAP folders may be virtually\u00a0nested by separating each level with another dot. For example, take the following mailbox layout:<\/p>\nINBOX\r\n\u00a0 |-- Billing\r\n\u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|-- Bills\r\n\u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 `-- Paid\r\n\u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0`-- Orders\r\n\u00a0 `-- Personal<\/pre>\n
Mail\/<\/code> like this:<\/p>\n.\r\n|-- .Billing\r\n|-- .Billing.Bills\r\n|-- .Billing.Bills.Paid\r\n|-- .Billing.Orders\r\n`-- .Personal<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
dovecot*<\/code> files:
\nThese are used internally by the IMAP\/POP3\u00a0server (Dovecot<\/a>) to keep track of email. Of importance are cache files, ending in .cache<\/code>, which may become corrupted if you exceed your storage usage, resulting in an empty mailbox<\/a>.<\/li>\nsubscriptions<\/code>
\nSubscriptions are all folders that appear once you login to an IMAP server. When a folder is subscribed to by an IMAP client, the folder name is written on a separate line. These are not used by POP3.<\/li>\ncur\/<\/code> oder new\/<\/code>
\nLastly, each file under these directories represents a single email. Each file consists of metadata embedded in its name.<\/p>\n1440231926<\/span>.M975332P7880V05000DAI00000000000001D1_0<\/span>.sol.apnscp.com<\/span>,S=1254<\/span>:2,S<\/span>\r\n ^- delivery in unixtime<\/span> ^ ^ | ^\r\n `- internal id<\/span> | | |\r\n `- receiving hostname<\/span> | |\r\n `- size<\/span> |\r\n `- flags<\/span><\/pre>\ncur\/<\/code><\/em>. In fact, during server migrations<\/a>, these email files are copied verbatim from the old server, which given the example above, will always have a completely different hostname in the filename. Still, these emails are accessible within any email client and display like any other email.<\/p>\nMigrating Email<\/h3>\n
cur\/<\/code>\u00a0directory of the respective\u00a0IMAP folder.<\/p>\nSiehe auch<\/h2>\n
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