[Dovecot] How to serve a subset of IMAP folders for hand held devices.

[Rick Romero]

Quoting David Pottage <david at electric-spoon.com>:

> On 28/12/11 10:39, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
>> :2011-12-28T10:26:David Pottage:
>>
>>> I solved the problem by creating a second instance of dovecot running on
>>> a non standard port, and configured it to serve only a subset my email
>>> folders, so that way the email client on my smartphone works well and I
>>> can read the emails I am interested in on the move.
>> Here's a simple improvement.
>> Create a new email user and symlink just those folders you want to see
>> into it.
> I considered that option but decided against it for two reasons.
>
> Firstly I wanted to retain the option to switch to the full version of
> my mail folders if I needed to access something urgently. My smart-phone
> based email client allows me to change the port number of an existing
> email account, but will not allow me to change the user-name without
> creating a whole new account and re-downloading everything.

I read back through the thread, and I don't see why you're not using  
IMAP subscriptions - did I overlook it?

Rick