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 to
the same mailboxes as I have in steve's Maildir folder.
I'm guessing that this would mean I can't/shouldn't use PAM for Dovecot
authentication? I don't really want to create 'dummy' (shell-account)
"users" on my server... but, I guess, it would be OK if I were to use
some other authentication mechanism, and pointed all these Dovecot-only
logins to the same Maildir folder.
By any chance, is there a 'howto' detailing a suitable sample
configuration for such a setup?
BTW - I would definitely want to be able to change subscriptions from
any device... I just want independent subscriptions for my
tablet/phone/desktop/VM clients - as I use email in different ways from
these different environments.
On 04/06/2015 15:24, Daniel Tröder wrote:
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 that give you a cool solution: Use shared mailboxes.
You could share all mailboxes of you main user to all the "device-users"
and then use the clients to subscribe only to those mailboxes that are
of interest.
That way you can change what a client sees using the client program,
without logging into the server as root. Especially nice, when you are
traveling and decide you need to read a mailbox with your mobile you
hadn't though about before.
Greetings
Daniel
