[Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension

[Patrick Domack]

Guess the next nice step would be to get sieve scripts to be able to  
use the aliased special use folders. So you can just say, fileinto  
\Spam;


Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de>:

> * A.L.E.C <alec at alec.pl>:
>> On 06.12.2011 13:43, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>>
>> > From my understanding RFC 6154 serves to flag some IMAP mailboxes  
>> in order to
>> > indicate they should be used for special use e.g. as trash folder etc.
>> >
>> > I fail to see how RFC 6154 would help displaying localized mailbox names.
>>
>> Ok. It will not help for existing folders, but will allow creation of
>> special-use folders with any name.
>
> Yes. And on top of that a MUA should detect these SPECIAL-USE folders and
> automagically map its special folders (trash, archive, sent, drafts, etc.) to
> the servers SPECIAL-USE mailboxes.
>
> This should take place transparently and the special folders should carry
> localized mailbox names e.g. "Sent" or "Gesendet" or "..."
>
> At least that was my motivation to initiate that RFC about two years ago and
> getting closer to that goal was the reason to sponsor this feature in Dovecot
> 2.1.
>
> p at rick
>
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