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