Where is mail store on Leopard Server?

I'm trying to restore email after a reinstall of Leopard Server but I can't find the mail on the Time Machine backup. I've looked in /var/spool/ but the folder is empty.

I've just spotted this and I'm frankly disgusted: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2599896
Leopard Server is one of the most irresponsible products Apple has ever released. This was sold to us as an easy to use integrated server. Crack dealers are more reliable.
What was Apple possibly thinking? Hey, let's sell Leopard Server to small businesses and tell them it's easy to use, but when they think they're backing up they won't be. Haha.
The only silver lining in this sorry story is that I'd already learnt not to trust the disgrace that is Leopard Server. I keep a copy of all the mail on a local machine and we also have an offsite backup. Problem is what should have taken minutes is going to take hours or days to restore. I can't imagine the grief those have gone through who hadn't learnt to distrust Leopard Server.

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