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Chapter 3 Mail Service Advanced Conguration 79
Working with Mail Service Data Storage
Mail service stores each message as a separate le in a mail folder for each user.
This is the user’s mailbox.
Incoming mail is stored on the startup disk in the /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/
folder. Dovecot mail storage can also be split across multiple partitions. This can be
done to scale Mail service, or to facilitate data backup.
You can do the following with the mail les:
View and specify where the mail les are stored. Â
Backup and restore the mail store. Â
Convert mail les from a previous version of Mac OS X Server. Â
Create additional mail stores. Â
These tasks are described in this section.
Viewing the Location of the Mail Store
You can view the location of the mail store as well as the size of the mail store. You
might need to track the current size of the mail store to plan mail server resources.
To change the location of the mail store, see “Specifying the Location of the Mail
Store” on page 79.
To view the location of the mail store:
1 In Server Admin, select Mail in the Computers & Services pane.
2 Click Advanced.
3 Select the Data Store tab.
Specifying the Location of the Mail Store
If you’re starting Mail service for the rst time and you have no mail store, you can
specify where the mail message les will be stored. By default, the mail store location
is /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail.
Note: Changing the mail store location of an existing mail system doesn’t move the
mail from the old location to the new one.
If this server is part of a mail server cluster, the mail store is kept on the Xsan cluster
and their locations cannot be changed.
To specify where mail is stored on the server:
1 If Mail service is running, stop Mail service.
See “Managing Mail Service” on page 20.