Local access to IMAP mailboxes

[Victor Sudakov]

Sami Ketola wrote:
> > On 26 Sep 2018, at 13.07, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> I have made mailboxes in ~/Mail available via IMAP (Dovecot 2.3.2.1),
> >> that is: "mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
> >> 
> >> However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with Mutt (e.g.
> >> append and delete mails).
> >> 
> >> Should I expect any problems wit Dovecot indexes etc? What if I even
> >> do "rm ~/Mail/some/mailbox", will Dovecot be mad at me?
> >> 
> > 
> > Dovecot is tolerant to changes with mbox and maildir. It will reindex if
> > it detects someone changing them outside.

That is good news! Thank you Aki!

> 
> That is true but it however has performance impacts if the caching
> is impaired but still does works.

Ah, is this perhaps the reason why my Android IMAP client sometimes takes so
long to list a folder's contents? I must have touched the folder
locally by Mutt and Dovecot is reindexing, is that right?

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