I have my dovecot running with TLS, so the passwords are NOT transmitted in the clear (starttls).
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:42 AM Victor Sudakov <v...@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote: > 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/ > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: larry...@gmail.com US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
