On 3/6/2012 3:01 PM, Steve Campbell wrote:
I've experienced that type of locked mailbox before on the old server. Users insist on accessing their email account as a pop account on their desktop with the "check for new mail every so many minutes" turned on and still keep their smartphones on while accessing it as an imap account so they can still download the files to their desktop when they return.
Using IMAP on the phone and POP on the PC doesn't make any sense. Is there a (valid) reason why these people insist on this phone/IMAP and PC/POP setup? This seems seriously counter intuitive/productive.
So just to clarify, is it OK to have a maildir account setup on this server for these shared/imap access only accounts along with the mbox accounts already on there?
Yes. With Dovecot it is possible to specify mail_location on a per user basis:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
You can even do a split mailbox type setup per user using multiple namespaces, for example specifying that INBOX use mbox with all other mail being stored in maildir format:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces
Thanks for the patience and help
Sure thing.
-- Stan