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@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/