[Dovecot] Sent vs Sent Items

[Daniel Watts]

Ed W wrote:
> Religious wars about which is "best" aside - some mail clients seem to 
> default to using "Sent Items" folder for saving sent mail, and others 
> (many) default to "Sent".
> 
> Seems that in the interests of compatibility and "doing the right thing" 
> (tm) that a symlink from one folder to the other name would ensure that 
> either default would give the same result (in a mixed client setup)?
> 
> However, I wonder if someone has already written a plugin to do 
> something simple like this?  More generally I guess it's folder 
> aliasing, so that Sent == Sent Items and perhaps there are also synonyms 
> for Drafts/Templates?
> 
> Anyone got any thoughts on this simple idea? (The prob with sym links is 
> a) creating them at mailbox setup time and b) what happens when someone 
> tries to delete the folder...)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ed W
> 

I agree it would be nice if the IMAP server could have an option to map 
a variety of folder names to a particular 'real' folder name. Not just 
Sent. I have also seen:

Trash vs Deleted Items