Local access to IMAP mailboxes

Aki Tuomi
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:07:13 -0000

On 26.09.2018 12:22, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have made mailboxes in ~/Mail available via IMAP (Dovecot 2.3.2.1),
> that is: "mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
>
> However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with mutt (e.g.
> append and delete mails).
>
> Should I expect any problems wit Dovecot indexes etc? What if I even
> do "rm ~/Mail/some/mailbox", will Dovecot be mad at me?
>

Dovecot is tolerant to changes with mbox and maildir. It will reindex if
it detects someone changing them outside.

Aki