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I have several dozen IMAP folders (stored as Maildir++). When I'm on the go with my iPhone, I only want to see a few of them. My naive solution that didn't work: 1) create an alternate login that yields my existing permissions and mail folder, but stores its own version of metadata 2) configure the iPhone to use that login 3) subscribe to the folders I want I test-drove the

...ew format. The old format is automatically converted to new one." When I try to delete a message (which moves it to the IMAP Trash folder), I get the following looping sequence of errors until I cancel the delete operation in the mail client: ----- Jun 24 12:22:13 chicken-ac dovecot: IMAP(schmonz): fdatasync_path(/home/schmonz/Maildir/.Trash/cur) failed: Bad file descriptor Jun 24 12:22:13 chicken-ac dovecot: Panic: IMAP(schmonz): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1217 (maildir_uidlist_sync_update): assertion failed: (ctx->first_unwritten_pos != (unsigned int)-1) Jun 24 12:22:13 chicken-ac...

In case anyone still cares, relay-ctrl works with Dovecot. Dovecot's end of the bargain requires a dirty little script to set TCPREMOTEIP based on the arguments passed from imap-login: #!/bin/sh TCPREMOTEIP=`echo "$@" | sed -e 's|.* ||' -e 's|]$||'` export TCPREMOTEIP exec "$@" And this (long) line in dovecot.conf: mail_executable: envdir