[Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension

[Michael M Slusarz]

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 "..."

Except the localization conversions should be done on the MUA level,  
not the mailstore level (see, e.g., INBOX).

As Timo noted in another message in this thread, for the most part  
there has been a informal standardization of special mailbox names to  
their English equivalents.  There is really no reason to move away  
from this standardization, especially for MUAs that do not yet support  
RFC 6154 but may support a form auto-detection of common special  
mailbox names.

michael