Email location question

Hello folks.

Let me start by saying that I do understand where the cPanel email is located on the file structure. (/home/<user>/mail/<domain.tld>/)

We have a unique situation. We took over an account that had an email migration and we have the following two folders under /home/<user>/mail/

1) domain.tld
2) domain.tld.from.oldmail

The first is the actual domain. The second looks to be the folder that may have been used in the previous email migration.

My question is: Is it possible for cPanel to be pointing to *both* folders for email for the domain? - or can it ONLY be in the "domain.tld" folder?

I ask, because we'd like to remove any extraneous folders/files.

I thought about a script to try and find duplicates, however the folders are quite huge and the strain on traversing them might be too much.

For example here are the (outrageous) mailbox sizes:

1) domain.tld -> 30GB
2) domain.tld.from.oldmail -> 24GB

Is there some definitive way to be sure that the 2nd folder is _not_ "in play" for email so we may delete it? (we don't want to rip it out and find out 3 months down the road the client needs an old email that they cannot find anymore).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jay

 

OK. I just wanted to be sure there wasn't some setting I wasn't seeing that allowed distribution of email among multiple folders. As you indicated, restoring the file should be somewhat trivial if we find something missing at some point. Thanks