I can't find any documentation on how postfix stores email. Where is it stored, and in what format? I'm using Ubuntu server 11
Where does postfix store email?
ubuntu;email;postfix
Probably /var/mail/[username] or the more traditional /var/spool/mail/[username]The normal format, called mbox, uses a line that starts with From  to indicate the start of each message - this is one reason why many email clients will change From  in the body of the message to >From .  You can also configure it to use maildir, in which /var/mail/[username] is a directory in which every email message is a file in that directory.