[Dovecot] different views of a imap account

[Thomas Harold]

On 12/2/2009 6:21 PM, Ajaxster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've looked around a few times to see if I could figure the answer to this
> question but I think I may not know the right question to ask...
>
> The scenario I have is that I'm running dovecot, exim and procmail on one
> server (using maildir storage) and also have apache on another server.  I
> can run squirrel mail, roundcube, etc. all on the web server and access
> all my email just fine.  I can run outlook or thunderbird or other imap
> clients just fine too.
>
> I have some smart phones that support imap mail servers, but when I set
> them up to connect to my server, the client seems to have to sync up data
> on all the mailboxes (lots of headers to download).  All I really want on
> my remote (phone based) imap clients is to view my inbox.  I believe that
> the subscriptions are done globally in that every client sees the same
> subscriptions, so that doesn't seem like the way to narrow down what my
> phone imap clients see.

On my HTC Touch Pro (Windows Mobile), it has its own idea of what the 
folder subscriptions are and doesn't track the IMAP subscription info. 
Which is good, because it chokes on my archive folders with a few 
thousand messages per year.  So I'm able to tell it to only look at Sent 
& Inbox without messing up the subscriptions on the other IMAP clients 
that also access that mailbox.

My other suggestion... split your high volume folders out to a 2nd IMAP 
account.