[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Charles Marcus <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> On 9/25/2009, Stefan Förster (cite+dovecot-users at incertum.net) wrote:
> >> Has anyone seen an approach or a solution that solves the problem from a users
> >> point of view? A server side alias list that maps to a server standard?
> 
> > Tried that, didn't work out that great (users got confused by 12
> > dozillion "sent" folders).
> 
> Thats not how I read the OPs question...
> 
> He wants to be able to configure some aliases server side so that if
> someone is using different clients that expect, for example, different
> folder names for the 'Sent' folder, it would map the expected name to a
> single folder on the server...
> 
> For example...
> 
> $user accesses their imap account using Outlook at work and ThunderBird
> at home.
> 
> Outlook expects to use a 'Sent Items' folder, Thuderbird expects a
> 'Sent' folder.
> 
> The OP wants to be able to define the folder to be used on the server as
> 'Sent', and map any *requests* for a 'Sent Items' folder to the 'Sent'
> folder...
> 
> So, each Client sees *only* what it expects, but only one folder on the
> server is used - meaning, Outlook doesn't now have *both* a 'Sent* *and*
> a 'Sent Items', it only has 'Sent Items', but this displays what is in
> the 'Sent' folder on the server.

Yes. That is exactly the behaviour I was thinking of. And I wonder if it is
possible...

> I like the idea, but don't know how feasible it is...

Same here :)

p at rick