Local access to IMAP mailboxes

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Thu Sep 27 17:50:48 EEST 2018


Thomas Leuxner wrote:
> 
> > > >> However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with Mutt (e.g.
> > > >> append and delete mails).
> 
> Why not use Mutt's IMAP capabilities and keep the indexes nice and clean?

Maybe the only reason is that I don't want to bother with
authentication and don't want to keep my password in muttrc.

Anyway, my mail is sorted and delivered to ~/Mail/* by procmail, so
the mboxes will be touched by a process outside of dovecot.


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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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