Re: Does Dovecot allow different clients to subscribe different subsets of IMAP folders?

2015-06-04 Thread Daniel Tröder
Hi Steve, for some reason I didn't get you message though the mailing list (my ml settings?), but only directly. For the sake of completeness I'm replying here - I hope that's OK. Shared mailboxes are really easy to implement. Just enable the namespace (type = shared) in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ma

Re: Does Dovecot allow different clients to subscribe different subsets of IMAP folders?

2015-06-04 Thread Steve
Hi Daniel, Hmm - I'm happy to use different 'user names' to log into Dovecot... as long as each of these logins can still subscribe to the same universe of folders I have available at present. I can envision using steve_mobile and steve_desktop as logins, as long as these still provide access

Re: Does Dovecot allow different clients to subscribe different subsets of IMAP folders?

2015-06-04 Thread Daniel Tröder
Hi Steve, I don't think the IMAP protocol has the concept of a "user agent". So there is no way for an IMAP server to distinguish between client programs. You could use POP and poll different mailboxes - but your clients probably don't support that. So you'll have to use different users. But tha

Re: Does Dovecot allow different clients to subscribe different subsets of IMAP folders?

2015-06-04 Thread b-dovecot . org
Hi Steve, I don't know if dovecot can use different 'subscriptions' but you can create different accounts and then link (ln -s) the relevant folders in each respective maildir. Cheers, B On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 01:40:57PM +0100, Steve wrote: > I have a working Dovecot IMAP server (v. 2.2.9) wh

Does Dovecot allow different clients to subscribe different subsets of IMAP folders?

2015-06-04 Thread Steve
I have a working Dovecot IMAP server (v. 2.2.9) where I have a single user but a lot of folders (over 800 in total, hierarchically arranged, about 50 of which are in active use.) I have multiple clients (including k9Mail on Android and Thunderbird on Linux and Windows). These clients all prese