dovecot - Nov 2006 - Two email accounts writing to one nfs shared home directory

I use dovecot as a local imap server on my desktop machine due to the
fact that my workplace only support POP3. I use fetchmail to pop,
postfix to deliver, and dovecot for client access. At present I have a
single email account which is the same as my system login and have
postfix and dovecot setup to use ~/Maildir. The home directories on our
system are served from a central file system, using nfs, which has full
backup/disaster recovery policy implemented.

I now need to setup a second separate email account for a specific task.
Our sysadmins have setup this account for me on the POP3 server. The
problem is that this account does not have a home directory on our
system and therefore I can't write to ~/Maildir.

What I would like to do is setup the same type of system for this second
account without necessitating the creation of a home directory. That is,
I would like a second Maildir folder in my own user account to which
this second email account's messages are delivered. This way I will have
full backup of the messages.

What is the most straightforward way of achieving this? (or can it be
done at all?)

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
John McDonald.

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:55 +0000, John McDonald wrote:
> What is the most straightforward way of achieving this? (or can it be
> done at all?)
Add a static userdb to your dovecot configuration for the second account
and configure all the parameters there.

johannes
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On Thursday 23 November 2006 11:55, John McDonald wrote:
> That is,
> I would like a second Maildir folder in my own user account to which
> this second email account's messages are delivered. This way I will
> have full backup of the messages.
>
> What is the most straightforward way of achieving this? (or can it be
> done at all?
If you don't need a separate local imap account, just have fetchmail 
retrieve the mail into a Maildir that is a subdirectory of ~/Maildir.

Regards,

  - Brian