Newbie: Maildir: where are my physical messages?

....in the past I ran a small sendmail on my old redhat fc4 box, which
finally died. So I rebuilt with OPENSUSE 10.2 running PostFix as my mail
server. I followed the recommended configs which stored the messages as:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
home_mailbox = Maildir/It appears from my google searches, that my
messages are stored as individual files instead of one giant appended
file... I would like to back up the email messages.Question: Where are my
messages stored?
Thanks
-Tom

SBC wrote:
> home_mailbox = Maildir/It appears from my google searches, that
> my messages are stored as individual files instead of one giant appended
> file...
>
That's expected for Maildir - if you want a single file per mailbox you
should be using the mbox format.

> I would like to back up the email messages.Question: Where are
> my messages stored?
>
Under Fedora using the default (mbox) mail storage format Postfix puts
the mailboxes in /var/spool/mail, so I'd suggest you start by looking
there. Its location is set by 'mail_spool_directory' in main.cf: its
usually defaulted but main.cf should show you the default locations.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
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On Jun 12, 12:27 pm, "SBC" <t...@noreply.com> wrote:
> ...in the past I ran a small sendmail on my old redhat fc4 box, which
> finally died. So I rebuilt with OPENSUSE 10.2 running PostFix as my mail
> server. I followed the recommended configs which stored the messages as:
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> home_mailbox = Maildir/It appears from my google searches, that my
> messages are stored as individual files instead of one giant appended
> file... I would like to back up the email messages.Question: Where are my
> messages stored?
> Thanks
> -Tom

Until delivery, they'll probably be in ~home/Maildir/new. After
delivery, if you're using IMAP, they'll probably be in ~home/Maildir/
cur