Message-ID: <696c8a87@news.ausics.net> From: Computer Nerd Kev Subject: Re: Dovecot for testing - can someone please give advice?./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi References: <10j6ksv$3oveg$1@dont-email.me> <10kg44q$2fej3$1@dont-email.me> <696bfd53@news.ausics.net> <10kh3ev$2tn7e$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i686)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 18 Jan 2026 17:23:51 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 38 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.raspberry-pi:37701 Markus Robert Kessler wrote: > On 18 Jan 2026 07:21:23 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Markus Robert Kessler wrote: >>> I try to set up a simple Dovecot instance on a raspberry where I can >>> create one mailbox and use this for testing purposes with GNU Mailutils >>> and ImapSync. >> >> FWIW GNU Mailutils comes with an IMAP server too, which I use for about >> the same purpose as what you seem to be doing. It seemed like a good >> idea but in practice I rarely use it and read the mailbox movemail >> writes to directly with an email client instead. > > [..] > > Thanks! Yes, I see imapd is also created when installing from GNU > Mailutils tarball. Actually it should be "imap4d". > Confusingly, Raspbian has each a separate package for > imapd, pop3, etc. Maybe, they consider this to be easier to just install > what's needed, rather than do a 'systemctl disable ...' for all unwanted > services. Probably, and note that when you install from the tarball you won't get the Systemd services added like you (might) get with the packages. > B.t.w., does GNU Mailutils imapd need mysql to store email details, or is > there everything stored in plain text? All plain-text, although you can choose the format, MH format in my example. With MH format each email is kept in an individual sequentially-numbered file. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#