# \[SOLVED\] Emails in INBOX not visible after distribution upgrade to Trixie
**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828 "2025-08-13T18:30:03Z")
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### Author:  [@David](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/David)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828/1 "2025-08-13T18:30:03Z")
After successfully updating two Pioneer FreedomBoxes I did a copy of the OS from my e-mail server (also a Pioneer) and updated it to trixie. The update was mostly successful. After the update we missed the e-mails in the mailbox (incoming mails). And SOGo had an issue with calendar and contacts. This problem (SOGo) was solved with a reinstall of SOGo from the FreedomBoxBackups. All the mails in /var/mail/ are still here. Now, since I additionally do backups with rsync, I would like to just copy the folder with the delivered mails back from the rsync backup after the final update, so I do not have to reinstall postfix/dovecot. The case is, that I couldn’t find the folders, where the incoming mails are stored in.
Does anybody know where? Maybe @Sunil?
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@Sunil](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Sunil)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828/2 "2025-08-19T00:16:32Z")
> [@David](#):
>
> After successfully updating two Pioneer FreedomBoxes I did a copy of the OS from my e-mail server (also a Pioneer) and updated it to trixie. The update was mostly successful. After the update we missed the e-mails in the mailbox (incoming mails).
Hi David,
I found a bug in dovecot configuration that would cause this problem. I [submitted a patch](https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/merge_requests/2684) and FreedomBox new release will have the fix. Until then, you do the following to fix the issue.
To fix the issue with not seeing the mails in your inbox: Edit the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-freedombox-mail.conf and add the line “mail\_inbox\_path =” (note the empty value after the equal sign) after “mail\_path =…”
Note that any mails you have received since the distribution upgrade have to be handle manually. They are present in /var/mail/{username}/u.\* . Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for upgrading early 🙂
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### Author:  [@David](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/David)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828/3 "2025-08-19T09:44:45Z")
Thank you @Sunil! My workaround was to move the mails of the inboxes of all accounts to an inbox-subfolder and to move them back from the subfolder to the inbox after the upgrade. But cool to have a patch 🙂
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### Author:  [@David](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/David)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828/4 "2025-08-24T11:26:34Z")
It looks like I have some difficulties to understand your patch @Sunil .
If I add 'mail\_inbox\_path = ’ in ` /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-freedombox-mail.conf`
it looks like this:
```auto
mail_driver = sdbox
mail_path = ~/mail
mail_inbox_path =
```
If I did understand it right, there has to be an empty space after the equal sign. If I apply this patch on my running trixie then e-mails in the inbox of my mail clients disappear.
Is it what you mentioned here?
> [@Sunil](#):
>
> Note that any mails you have received since the distribution upgrade have to be handle manually. They are present in /var/mail/{username}/u.\* .
How did you apply the patch @Ged ?
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### Author:  [@Ged](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Ged)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/solved-emails-in-inbox-not-visible-after-distribution-upgrade-to-trixie/3828/5 "2025-08-24T21:35:39Z")
i preferred copying my old folders as is, so i didnt add a space after ‘mail\_inbox\_path =’