[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:40:21AM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:55:41PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Sep 25, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> >
> >> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter 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?
> >>> Symlinks maybe? Or something similar done internally. The main  
> >>> problem would anyway be LIST command, should it show all of them or  
> >>> somehow try to figure out which one to show?
> >>
> >> Do the clients identify which program they are?
> >
> > No. And one of the first commands they typically do is LIST. So there  
> > are no good ways to solve this.
> >
> > Although I haven't really seen much problems myself. Linux clients allow 
> > changing what mailboxes they use, so I just configure them to use the 
> > same as Apple Mail..
> 
> Given than you seem to bless Apple Mail folder structures it makes it
> a good candidate to try to push as a standard for others to
> copy. Maybe there could be example setups/configs shipped with dovecot
> that maps other naming conventions to Apple's? In that way dovecot
> would start to inforce the use of a standard which in the long term
> could become a real standard.
> 
> If Apple's structure are not the best to go with, then we could use
> some other naming convention, I just trust that Timo's choice is not a
> bad one. ;)

I forgot to ask: How do Apple Mail's structures look like?
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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