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 Am 04.06.2015 um 14:40 schrieb 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 present a consistent subscription > to a single subset of the available folders . > > What I'd like to be able to do is (somehow) allow different devices > (different email clients) to subscribe to a different subset of folders. > For example, I may want K9mail on my phone to be subscribed only to my > "main Inbox" - but for Thunderbird on Windows to also be subscribed to > active mailing-list folders. > > Does Dovecot support such a mode of operation? If so, how do I configure > it? If not, what options are there to achieve the desired end result - > i.e. different devices/IMAP clients subscribed to different subsets of > the universe of folders available to a single user. > > Mandatory details: > Version : 2.2.9 > Configuration: See http://paste.ubuntu.com/11564807/
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