Re: Something is moving my saved mail

On Saturday December 22 2007 10:48:16 Alan Chandler wrote:
> My home server, running etch has a mail server that is based
> around exim. I have set it up to copy all outgoing mail from
> local users to ~user/Maildir/.Sent directory.
>
> What is really strange however is that about monthly mail is
> moved from this .Sent directory and copied into some maildir
> formated directories called .Sent.yyyy.MM-mmm (where yyyy is
> the four digit year, MM the two digit month and the mmm is the
> three letter abbreviation for month). This makes the sent mail
> appear in an imap world to sit in yearly directories and then
> monthly directories in a tree below Sent mail.
>
> I have searched all the cron scripts I could find to see how
> this mail gets moved.
>
> My wife and I both use pop3 access to retrieve our inbox. I use
> imap to access the imap account buy my wife doesn't.
>
> I also use sqwebmail a lot, my wife not at all. my children
> have only occassionally used e-mail from home - other than some
> access from sqwebmail.
>
> But I am the only one with a regular copying of this mail. The
> rest of my family have only sporadic mail entries. of archived
> mail.
>
> It is almost as though using something like sqwebmail causes
> the e-mail to get archived, but it might be accessing the mail
> through my courierimap server that does it.
>
> Can someone put out my misery and tell me how it is done

Maybe you have one of the packages listed here?

$ apt-cache search mail archive | sort

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