On 3/6/2012 3:01 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've experienced that type of locked mailbox before on the old server. > Users insist on accessing their email account as a pop account on their > desktop with the "check for new mail every so many minutes" turned on > and still keep their smartphones on while accessing it as an imap > account so they can still download the files to their desktop when they > return.
Using IMAP on the phone and POP on the PC doesn't make any sense. Is there a (valid) reason why these people insist on this phone/IMAP and PC/POP setup? This seems seriously counter intuitive/productive. > So just to clarify, is it OK to have a maildir account setup on this > server for these shared/imap access only accounts along with the mbox > accounts already on there? Yes. With Dovecot it is possible to specify mail_location on a per user basis: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation You can even do a split mailbox type setup per user using multiple namespaces, for example specifying that INBOX use mbox with all other mail being stored in maildir format: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces > Thanks for the patience and help Sure thing. -- Stan
