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Zentyal Server => Installation and Upgrades => Topic started by: MIB on February 09, 2011, 07:32:00 pm

Title: [SOLVED]Where are the mails?
Post by: MIB on February 09, 2011, 07:32:00 pm

I used SME as a Mailserver. There I used to backup the mails with rsync to another sever.
Worked fine if you had to bring back a deleted mail or a system crash or a broken disk.
I would like to do this system also on the Zentyal system. But with Zentyal I can not find where the mails are located. ??? I do not find the mails in webmin  (E-Mailserver: Postfix ) not anywehre in the home directory.
Can anyone help pelase?
Thanks
MIB

Title: Re: Where are the mails?
Post by: Trym on February 09, 2011, 08:02:02 pm

Short answer is: It depends if you're using Zarafa or not.

If yes, then the mail-data is in an mysql-database. If not, they're in /var/mail and /var/vmail.

For more see here (http://forum.zentyal.org/index.php?topic=6052.0) and here. (http://how-to.solheimsvollen.net/HOW-TO_Zentyal_2_Backup_and_Disaster_Recovery.html) (last part of background and/or first part of setup on how to back it up.)

Title: Re: Where are the mails?
Post by: MIB on February 09, 2011, 10:12:36 pm

No I am not using Zarafa.
Great I foung the mails in /var/vmail  :D
I will just backup this directory.
Thank you!

Title: Re: Where are the mails?
Post by: cheesyking on February 09, 2011, 10:27:09 pm

don't forget to check the size of the partition that /var/vmail is on. By default zentyal puts it on the small root partition so if you use imap you can very easily fill the partition.