Stupid question

[Wil Harper]

It was my understanding that these databases are in
the /var/imap directory.  I am running OS X Server. 
Below is a directory listing that may be helpful.

iwfo:/var/imap root# ls -l
total 48
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail   144 Oct 23 15:18
annotations.db
drwxr-xr-x   9 cyrusima  mail   306 Oct 23 15:18 db
drwx------   5 cyrusima  mail   170 Oct 23 16:18
db.backup1
drwx------   5 cyrusima  mail   170 Oct 23 15:48
db.backup2
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail  8192 Oct 23 14:43
deliver.db
drwxr-xr-x   3 cyrusima  mail   102 Oct 18 16:20 log
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail  1960 Oct 23 15:20
mailboxes.db
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrusima  mail    68 Oct 23 15:19 msg
drwxr-xr-x   4 cyrusima  mail   136 Oct 23 16:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrusima  mail    68 Oct 17 12:34
ptclient
drwx------   5 cyrusima  mail   170 Oct 23 16:16 quota
drwxr-xr-x   7 cyrusima  mail   238 Oct 23 15:18
socket
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail  8192 Oct 23 04:06
tls_sessions.db
drwx------   4 cyrusima  mail   136 Oct 19 08:45 user

iwfo:/var/imap/db root# ls -l
total 37856
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail      8192 Oct 23 15:17
__db.001
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail    663552 Oct 23 15:17
__db.002
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail     98304 Oct 23 15:17
__db.003
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail  18563072 Oct 23 15:17
__db.004
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail     32768 Oct 23 15:18
__db.005
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail     11257 Oct 23 15:18
log.0000000001
-rw-------   1 cyrusima  mail         4 Oct 23 15:18
skipstamp


Again any help is appreciated.

--- Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com> wrote:

> Wil Harper wrote:
> > I am attempting to learn all I can about Cyrus for
> a
> > work project but I am unable to find documentation
> > about what exactly the /var/imap/db directory and
> the
> > enclosed files are for.  Any assistance or
> direction
> > on where to find this information is greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> These are the various databases that are referred to
> in the docs.  At 
> the very least the mailboxes database and the
> duplicate delivery 
> database are there.
> 


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