How do we check whether our server is using mbox or maildir?

[gundamz]

Hi all,

I think many people are upgrading to cpanel v11.

How do we check whether our server is using mbox or maildir?

[Lastqaurk]

Go to service status in either WHM or cPanel. It will tell you whether it is mbox or mail dir.

[gundamz]

Go to service status in either WHM or cPanel. It will tell you whether it is mbox or mail dir.

I don't see any mbox or maildir under there.

[serversphere]

Look for something like:

exim (exim-4.66-0_cpanel_maildir) up

[gundamz]

I don't have that under server status.

I am using WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R10737 . Why mine is different?

[serversphere]

What do you see for exim on your box?

(Could just be 11 that shows this...)

[WebScHoLaR]

I don't have that under server status.

I am using WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R10737 . Why mine is different?

Are you a Reseller or owner of the server? If you are reseller then you can verify that the server is running maildir or mailbox by checking the email accounts folders inside mail folder. If you see folders cur, new, tmp then the server is running maildir.

[gundamz]

I am viewing whm as root user.

[Aric1]

Check your Service Manager and make sure both checkboxes are checked next to Exim.

In any case, you can also run:

/scripts/convert2maildir

as root via SSH and that will tell you what you are using and offer to convert things if needed.

Regards,

Aric

[valkira]

I you want the easiest way to check this, just go to /home/username/mail/domain.com/email_username and type 'ls -al'

If you see something like:

drwxr-x--- 2 username mail 4096 Mar 16 19:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 username mail 4096 Apr 13 2005 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 username mail 18739207 Mar 16 19:57 inbox

It's mbox, and if you see something like:

drwxr-x--- 14 username mail 4096 Feb 13 16:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 username mail 4096 Jan 4 18:38 ../
drwx------ 2 username mail 28672 May 21 22:19 cur/
-rw-rw---- 1 username mail 12 Nov 15 2005 .mailboxlist
-rw------- 1 username mail 3687 May 21 21:54 maildirsize
drwx------ 2 username mail 4096 May 21 22:19 new/

It's maildir

The point is that mbox keeps all e-mails in one file, maildir keepsa them (I'm sure you can guess) in one folder/direcroty