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Assunto:  Re: Dovecot for testing - can someone please give advice?./. Was: Citad
De:       Computer Nerd Kev
Data:     Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:23:51 +1000
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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  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.

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