[Dovecot] mixing dovecot and non-dovecot access to mail

[Michal Szymanski]

Hello,

I have recently installed Mailscanner/postfix for the mail server and
dovecot for (mainly remote) access to email (via T'bird etc. and/or
Webmail). Most users still use text mail clients (mutt, pine, some still
old elm) while in the office. These clients access mail (both incoming
at /var/mail/ and users' private folders in ~/Mail) directly.

I wonder whether this mixing of dovecot and non-dovecot access can make
any problems, provide, of course, that the users are not using both ways
at the same time. AFAIK dovecot makes some indexing. Will it not be
confused if the folder is changed and de-sync-ed with the index?

regards, Michal.

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  Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl)
  Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND

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