Where is fetchmail storing incoming emails and how to change this path?

UCS - Univention Corporate Server
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hey forumists:

when i set up my UCS (core) back then I chose the given opetions and quotas that installing a LMU suggested. Now I am on UCS 4.3-2 err 298 and am wondering (after the upgrade process was a bit bumyp due to some baroes-thing)… where does fetchmail store incoming emails?
I just want to avoid a full disc… and so I was wondering how to change the storing path… or maybe there’s a different solution on how to grant more quota to the LMU.

Sorry that might sound a bit strange… but wells… I’m still kind of a beginner.

Thanks in advance for all your helpful hints and solutions.
cheers
Jimmy

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Hey,

fetchmail never stores incoming mail. Immediately after reading a mail from your POP3 or IMAP server, it contacts a mail transport agent (MTA) via SMTP (usually localhost:25) and hands the mail over to it. What the SMTP server does depends on your configuration (e.g. delivery to Dovecot which might store mails in /home/username/… or somewhere in /var/spool/… or delivery to Kopano which stores mails in a MySQL database which in turn stores its files in /var/lib/mysql).

Kind regards,
mosu

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as i have enabled dovecot (and horde) i think i’m gonna look at the suggested path /home/username/... first

thanks so far @Moritz_Bunkus

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Just FYI: if you’re using Dovecot via Univention’s own mail setup, it will store mails in /var/spool/dovecot/private/<domain>/<username>/…, not in /home/<username>/…. That /home/… was just an example.

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hey moitz… thanks for this very useful additional information.
is there any way to store the mails in a different place? and if yes: how do i change it?

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Why are you trying to store mails somewhere else? Are you running into free space problems?

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exactly this… so i dunno

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Normally UCS is set up with LVM volumes. It’s easy to extent an existing volume group & logical volume by adding a new hard disk, adding that to the volume group & resizing the existing logical volume. You can google for tutorials how to do that; there are plenty all around (both in general as well as specific for UCS).

If you’re not using the logical volume manager, you can also add a new hard disk, move all content from /var/spool/dovecot`` to it and mount the new hard disk as/var/spool/dovecot`.

Both methods do not require any changes to existing configuration (apart from the mount entry in /etc/fstab in the second case). Personally I highly prefer the first approach.

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thanks for these smart considerations…

i might do either no 1 or even no 2.

but i read between the lines that there isn’t any “easy” solution like a variable that could be changed to point to a different location… sigh