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Subject: Re: Dovecot for testing - can someone please give
advice?./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my
emails
Markus Robert Kessler <
no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2026 07:21:23 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Markus Robert Kessler <
no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> 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.
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