[Dovecot] How to configure dovecot for specific mailboxes only?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.8.2012, at 18.40, Alex wrote:

> is it possible to configure dovecot so that it only serves mailboxes
> of specified users? All other users should be completely ignored so
> that no indexing of messages or other resource consuming actions take
> place.

You can configure passdb/userdb to give different settings to different users. So maybe for some users you return mail_location with :INDEX=MEMORY and don't accept their passwords. Depends on your setup what exactly you need to do..