[Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 23:26 +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>> > I'm anyway now wondering what the defaults should be? Could someone
>> > check what these defaults are for Outlook and any other clients you
>> > have:
>> >
>> >  * "Drafts" is used by all clients
>> >  * "Trash" is used by all clients
>> >  * "Junk" is used by all clients? Or is "Spam" used by some?

'Spam' is also used.  This one is probably a bit more site-specific.

>> >  * "Sent" is used by Thunderbird, Evolution
>> >  * "Sent Messages" is used by Apple Mail
>> >
>> > So I'm mainly wondering about "Sent" vs. "Sent Messages".

IIRC, at least some versions of Exchange use(d) "Sent Items".

> This way whichever mailbox the first client creates would be used as
> \Sent. Although if different clients create both of them there would
> then be two \Sent mailboxes. But the user would probably delete one of
> them and all would be good again.

This will continue to be an issue until more clients support the RFC.

michael