[Dovecot] Mobile phone client - first access

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2010-08-20 10:33:57 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:33:57 +0100
> From: Ron Leach <ronleach at tesco.net>
> Subject: [Dovecot] Mobile phone client - first access
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen, good morning!  With my first post to the list,
> may I begin by saying how impressed I have been by Dovecot's
> performance on our Debian server.  We've configured it to run with
> Exim and Fetchmail, using Dovecot to manage professional and
> domestic emails for a small home office, serving a number of Windows
> and Linux clients both on the internal network and, when working
> overseas, via SSH tunnels back to the Debian server.  Dovecot's
> performance has been, simply, rock-solid; a very impressive piece of
> work by Timo and all those supporting him.
> 
> My ordinary mobile phone - a Sony Ericsson C510 - includes an email
> client with IMAP capability (and none, TLS, or SSL encryption).
> Configured to access our server across the mobile carrier's network,
> the results surprised me; they were not what I expected.
> 
> The first surprise was, it worked.
> 
> More seriously, the messages it retrieved were not what I expected;
> the phone received around 58 messages, but from the 'inbox', the
> 'junk' box, and a couple from a 'project' box.  I had expected to
> only retrieve the messages that were in the 'inbox'.  How does
> Dovecot 'decide' what messages to give the phone client?  [I think I
> may have the wrong 'mental model' of what should have happened, and
> would appreciate being put right.]  Is it possible to configure
> Dovecot to only serve specific boxes?  The mobile phone client is
> extremely simple - it does not have the facility to 'browse' the
> folders, it only has an inbox, sentbox, etc; I have wondered whether
> there might be a 'jar' email client that is richer, and which might
> help - I will look for something anyway.
> 
> But I was impressed that my mobile phone could check our home and
> office email while offsite; if I can get that working it will save
> having to fire up the laptop at each opportunity.
> 
> Thanks very much for reading this far, and, also, thanks everyone
> who takes the time to contribute to the list,

your phone decides.

you should check if the software on the phone honors the server side
subscription list or has a local one.

    darix

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