diff --git a/wiki/source/email.md b/wiki/source/email.md index f87c5a5..25c1307 100644 --- a/wiki/source/email.md +++ b/wiki/source/email.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ --- title: email -author: benharri +author: + - benharri + - xwindows category: tutorial --- @@ -67,3 +69,44 @@ if you're feeling especially motivated, please reach out to the support on your mail provider and ask them to look into why you're not receiving the messages. +## Mailbox Format + +Tilde.club uses [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) as a local mail delivery agent +as well as an IMAP server. +It is configured to deliver your emails +into a `.mail/` subdirectory +within your home directory on the server, +structured in [Courier MTA's Maildir++ format](https://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html). + +Maildir++ format is essentially the same as Maildir mailbox format, +but with a concept of subfolders added in: +apart from the usual `cur/`, +`new/`, +and `tmp/` subdirectories for normal Maildir operations; +there would now also be dot-subdirectories +which are email subfolders. +Each dot-subdirectory +would contain usual Maildir subdirectories, +but not any more dot-subdirectory inside it. + +In Tilde.club, +the default layout of your Maildir++ folder hierarchy +would be as the following: + +| Email Folder | Filesystem Directory | +|:-------------|:----------------------| +| _(Inbox)_ | `~/.mail/` | +| _(Sent)_ | `~/.mail/.sent-mail/` | +| Junk | `~/.mail/.Junk/` | +| Drafts | `~/.mail/.Drafts/` | +| Trash | `~/.mail/.Trash/` | + +So, +if you would like to use command line tools +to tinker with your mailbox, +then more power to you. +Also, +note that email access via IMAP and webmail +actually read/write emails directly onto these directories; +so now you know where to grab a copy of all your emails data +if you ever need a backup as well.