Local access to IMAP mailboxes

Sami Ketola
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:08:22 -0000

> On 26 Sep 2018, at 13.07, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
wrote:
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> On 26.09.2018 12:22, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> 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?
>>
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> Dovecot is tolerant to changes with mbox and maildir. It will reindex if
> it detects someone changing them outside.


That is true but it however has performance impacts if the caching is impaired
but still does works.

Sami