[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Robert Schetterer]

Axel Thimm schrieb:
> 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. ;)

sorry apple mail , has a long history of bugs with imap ( special it
acted not very good with courier an other namespaces )
and there are no version for linux and windows, so i personally dont like it

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MfG Robert Schetterer

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