On 12/28/2011 4:05 PM, David Pottage wrote:
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.
Secondly creating a second account makes the authentication on the server a lot more complex. Either I need two OS level accounts on the sever, and find ways to keep them in sync, or I need to create a custom authentication method on dovecot or PAM so that when it receives a user-name matching some pattern, it will check the password against a different account.
In short, I think a second server with a separate configuration is more scalable. I don't think it consumes much more resource compared with one server.
It's a smart phone. Have you considering simply running a webmail server?
-- Stan