[Dovecot] viewing a subset of folders in dumb IMAP clients

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:51 -0500, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> My world-weary, clunkier, but seemingly working solution:
> 
> 1) have the alternate login yield my existing permissions, but a  
> different mail folder and metadata
> 
> 2) create that mail folder, make its cur/new/tmp symlinks to the real  
> ones, and symlink in the other folders I care about
> 
> Is this safe? 

Yes.

> And is there a more elegant way to do what I want?

Why not symlink the entire maildirs so their metadata is shared as well?

Another possibility would be to write a plugin limiting what mailboxes
LIST shows.
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