Email changes?

[Roger]

I'm posting here as I have one of the new Reseller-300 accounts and I suspect this takes me out of the DesignRweb fold, though that's how I came to Othello. Please feel free to move this post to a better forum if necessary.

Since I moved to the new account, when I look in the mail directory I see a lot of new directories and files, for example mail/new and mail/cur directories, and within these files such as 1171968133.H901074P18539.cpanel2.uk.othellotech.ne t (which seems to be a log of some kind) and 1171073616.000001.mbox:2, (which looks like an email message.)

Has there been a change of email program that would cause this? And would this be the reason that a number of accounts have seen their disk usage increase?

Has the single inbox file containing all the emails been superseded? If so, this could be unfortunate as I had worked out a method of migrating all the emails from a different server, which was to download them to Thunderbird then to upload them to the inbox file.

[othelloRob]

I'm posting here as I have one of the new Reseller-300 accounts and I suspect this takes me out of the DesignRweb fold, though that's how I came to Othello. Please feel free to move this post to a better forum if necessary.

Since I moved to the new account, when I look in the mail directory I see a lot of new directories and files, for example mail/new and mail/cur directories, and within these files such as 1171968133.H901074P18539.cpanel2.uk.othellotech.ne t (which seems to be a log of some kind) and 1171073616.000001.mbox:2, (which looks like an email message.)

Has there been a change of email program that would cause this? And would this be the reason that a number of accounts have seen their disk usage increase?

Has the single inbox file containing all the emails been superseded? If so, this could be unfortunate as I had worked out a method of migrating all the emails from a different server, which was to download them to Thunderbird then to upload them to the inbox file.

The email system on the new reseller servers is a much later version of the pop3/smtp/imap service, using mbox format rather than maildir

Your method of d/load and u/load shoudl still work, we are looking into the extra files, it *apears* that they are created when there is simultaneous muliple connections to the mailbox files - will update when we know more.

[Roger]

Your method of d/load and u/load should still work
I will try it out and post my findings here. Thanks for the quick reply.