[Dovecot] Sent vs Sent Items

[Bill Cole]

At 2:35 PM +0000 11/5/07, Daniel Watts wrote:
>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

While we're making a list: 'Junk' vs. 'Junk E-mail' is a particular 
problematic case of client disagreement because some clients (e.g. 
Eudora, Outlook) work in ways that are Very Bad when they disagree on 
the final destination of probable spam.

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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com