mbpath(8)

mbpath

Translate mailbox names to filesystem paths

Synopsis

mbpath [ -C config-file ] [ -q ] [ -s ] [ -m ] [ mailbox-names... ]

Given a mailbox name or a space separated list of mailbox names, mbpath outputs the filesystem path to the mailbox.

mbpath It uses <configdirectory>/mailboxes.db to locate the mailbox on disk.

mbpath

-C config-file

-q

Suppress any error output.

-s

If any error occurs, stop processing the list of mailboxes and exit.

-m

Output the path to the metadata files (if different from the message files).

mbpath user.jsmith

html

/var/spool/imap/user/jsmith

mbpath -m user.jsmith

html

/var/spool/meta/imap/user/jsmith

/etc/imapd.conf, <configdirectory>/mailboxes.db