[Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>:
> 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).

I believe that is exactly what I said in my lines above.


> 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

Where in my posting did I say I want to move away from that standard?

> support RFC 6154 but may support a form auto-detection of common
> special mailbox names.

p at rick


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