Dovecot mbox & other programs

[Tom Hendrikx]

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On 06-06-15 19:01, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to use dovecot as imap server with mbox storage format
> (described at [1]) but I also want to access (and modify!) those
> mbox files which are stored on server (and used by dovecot).
> 
> What is correct way to read those mboxes? From wiki page [1] I read
> that I should ignore first message in mbox (which contains
> X-IMAPbase header) and mbox file is in mboxcl2 format.
> 
> And what is correct way to modify that mbox file (which is used by
>  dovecot imap)? I would like to configure mutt on server to
> directly access those mbox mailboxes without need to use imap
> protocol (over localhost). It is possible without any data/message
> damage?

Just out of curiosity: why are you interested in handling the files
manually when dovecot and IMAP protocol can already do that for you?

Even when accessing the files directly from the server, dovecot will
handle possible file correction, access control, file permissions etc
all for you. Using IMAP to localhost with mutt still gives you all of
the above, maybe including other nice IMAP-related benefits such as
FTS etc.

Tom
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