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When Mail service starts for the rst time, it creates an empty mail store at the default
location. You can ignore this or delete it after you specify an alternate mail storage
location and restart Mail service.
2 In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
3 Click Settings.
4 Click the Advanced tab.
5 Click Data Store.
You’ll see the current location of the mail store.
6 In the Mail store location eld, enter the path of the location where you want mail
les to be stored.
You can browse for a location by clicking Choose next to the Location eld.
Creating Additional Mail Store Locations
Mail service can scale well as your storage needs change. You can spread the mail store
across several disks or le systems. You can add partitions to the mail store without
requiring downtime, or even users’ knowledge.
To use new mail store locations, you designate the partition where the mail store
resides. Enter the mail store path in the user’s mail settings using Workgroup Manager.
For more instructions, see User Management.
The mail store partitions can be additional hard disk partitions or remotely mounted
le systems. For remotely mounted le systems, NFS isn’t recommended.
Note: Creating locations doesn’t put mail in those locations. Edit the user records
in Workgroup Manager to start delivering mail to the partitions. Deleting a location
doesn’t delete the mail at that location, but makes those mail folders inaccessible.
To split the mail store:
1 In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
2 Click Settings.
3 Click the Advanced tab.
4 Click Data Store.
You’ll see the current location of the mail store.
5 To add a location, click the Add (+) button below the Additional Mail Store Locations
box and complete the following:
a Enter a name for the mail store location (for example, “Marketing” or “Executive”).
b Enter the path to the new location (such as /Volumes/mailstore2).
c Click OK.
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