cyrus-mbpath(8)

Overview

Given a mailbox name or a space separated list of mailbox names, mbpath outputs the filesystem path(s) of the mailbox. By default, the mailboxes' data partition paths are shown (same as -D). See Selectors for selecting which filesystem path(s) to output.

mbpath reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C. It uses <configdirectory>/mailboxes.db to locate the mailboxes on disk.

Options

-C config-file: Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5).

-l, --local-only: Local mailboxes only (exits with error for remote or nonexistent mailboxes)

-m: Output the path to the metadata files (if different from the message files). Legacy, use -M.

-q, --quiet: Suppress any error output.

-s, --stop: If any error occurs, stop processing the list of mailboxes and exit.

-u, --userids: The specified mailbox-names are userids, not mailboxes.

-p, --paths: The specified mailbox-names are UNIX mailbox paths, not mailboxes.

Selectors

-A, --archive: Show the mailbox archive path

-D, --data: Show the mailbox data path (default)

-M, --metadata: Show the mailbox metadata path (same as -m)

-S, --sieve: Show the user sieve scripts path

-U, --user-files: Show the user files path (seen, sub, etc)

-a, --all: Show all paths, as if all selectors were specified

Examples

mbpath user.jsmith

Display the data path for mailbox user.jsmith.

mbpath -M user.jsmith

Display the metadata path for mailbox user.jsmith.

mbpath -u -S jsmith

Display the sieve scripts path for user jsmith.

Files

/etc/imapd.conf, <configdirectory>/mailboxes.db

History

Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 9 (Stretch)
Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)