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

[Knute Johnson]

On 12/29/2011 2:02 PM, David Pottage wrote:
> On 28/12/11 22:21, Rick Romero wrote:
>>
>> Quoting David Pottage<david at electric-spoon.com>:
>>> 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?
>>
> If you mean subscriptions on the smartphone client, I was not using them
> because the first IMAP client I was using (native email on a Palm Pre)
> did not support them.
>
> I have since switched to an Android phone and started using K9, but I
> still find it helpful to filter the list of folders that that K9 sees as
> I don't want a huge list with an unmanageable scrollbar, and many of the
> folders are archive folders that will never contain anything current, so
> it makes no sense to make them accessible except through a desktop client.
>
> I am not saying my solution is the only possible solution but I do think
> it is worth recording in the Wiki as others may find my approach useful.
>

My wife has an Android phone running K-9 and she is able to not display 
most of the hundreds of folders that she has.  I haven't seen any 
drawbacks to that technique on her phone.  Well maybe if she got rid of 
about a 1000 emails out of her INBOX it would help :-).

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Knute Johnson
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