[Dovecot] question about

[Chris Wakelin]

Michiel van Es wrote:
> I do not mind that it is an IMAP 'feature'..I DO mind that Dovecot is 
> autocreating it although I told dovecot to only serve pop3 and pop3s!!
> 
> Michiel

It's actually nothing to do with IMAP particularly, but it's how Dovecot 
stores its indexes/cache to improve performance for all mailbox 
accesses, whether POP or IMAP. The INBOX is a "special" folder in IMAP, 
but the only folder in POP ;)

You could have :INDEX=MEMORY (at least with dovecot-1.0-testXX) if you 
really don't want the indexes to be stored on disk (but there have been 
bugs in it until recently).

Best Wishes,
Chris

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