Local access to IMAP mailboxes

[Larry Rosenman]

I have my dovecot running with TLS, so the passwords are NOT transmitted in
the clear (starttls).

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:42 AM Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Joseph Tam wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > I do it all the time.  Works fine.
>
> Great, thank you!
>
> >
> > As others have written, you may see performance degradation as Dovecot
> > will have to rebuild indices, but if you have small mailboxes, this won't
> > be too bad.  The only reason I use direct file access rather than IMAP
> > is that I'm too lazy to work out a passwordless access method.  If this
> > doesn't bother you or you can configure this (e.g. Kerberos, keyring,
> > etc.), IMAP access is preferable since you won't pull the indices out
> > from Dovecot's feet.
>
> What passwordless access methods does Dovecot support? I'm more or
> less experienced with GSSAPI but for the present I would not like to
> set up a KDC somewhere on a box exposed to the Internet.
>
> >
> > You'll also get a lot of innocuous griping in the log files about
> > UIDVALIDITY and mailbox corruption, but they can be safely ignored.
>
> My mail goes through procmail, so Dovecot will not be the only one to
> touch the mboxes anyway.
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
>


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