[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Stefan Förster <cite+dovecot-users at incertum.net>:
> * Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de>:
> > * Timo Sirainen <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> >> No. And one of the first commands they typically do is LIST. So
> >> there are no good ways to solve this.
> > 
> > I suspected that.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to identify a client by the folders it tries to subscribe
> > to?
> 
> You could, of course, have a list of folders to hide in a LIST
> command. Most clients would then try to create those folders (a
> request which is ignored) and the IMAP server had to redirect all

Is it so? They would? If yes this behaviour would create a kind of footprint,
which could be used to identify a client and load its "client view".

> further select requests. Something along the lines of:
> 
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ignore-aliases-in-list-or-create-command-and-redirect-select:
> sent-mail   gesendet/i,gesendete nachrichten/i,sent\(-mail\)?/i
> trash       trash/i,junk/i,geloeschte\ objekte/i
> 
> > User interaction or server side configuration is fine if it takes place in a
> > company, but its not feasible in an ISP environment.
> 
> A corporate environment doesn't need that kind of functionality. Just
> preconfigure all installed software to suit your company's needs.

Agreed. That's what I had tried to indicate in the sentence above.

p at rick