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=====Message Storage===== | =====Message Storage===== | ||
- | In VPOP3 version 5 and later, all users' messages are stored in the database, so they will occupy space in the VPOP3\pgsql\data folder | + | In VPOP3 version 5 and later, all users' messages are stored in the database, so they will occupy space in the VPOP3\pgsql\data folder. |
- | In VPOP3 versions 3 and 4, users' small messages are stored in the database, so will occupy space in the VPOP3\pgsql\data folder. Large messages are stored in the VPOP3\_messages folder tree, so occupy space there | + | In VPOP3 versions 3 and 4, users' small messages are stored in the database, so will occupy space in the VPOP3\pgsql\data folder. Large messages are stored in the VPOP3\_messages folder tree, so occupy space there. |
- | In VPOP3 versions 1 and 2, users' messages are stored in the VPOP3\< | + | Note that in VPOP3 v3 and later, deleting messages from users' mailboxes will not necessarily reduce the amount of disk space used by the database. See the [[database_maintenance]] topic for more information. |
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+ | In VPOP3 versions 1 and 2, users' messages are stored in the VPOP3\< | ||
=====Message Archive===== | =====Message Archive===== | ||
If you have message archiving enabled, then the archived messages are stored in the message archive folder (which may be VPOP3\_archive, | If you have message archiving enabled, then the archived messages are stored in the message archive folder (which may be VPOP3\_archive, | ||
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+ | This can be configured in Settings -> [[reference: | ||
=====Message Quarantine===== | =====Message Quarantine===== | ||
- | If you are using the spam filtering in VPOP3, then quarantined messages are stored in the VPOP3\_quarantine folder | + | If you are using the spam filtering in VPOP3, then quarantined messages are stored in the VPOP3\_quarantine folder |
=====Database backups===== | =====Database backups===== |