[Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension
Willie Gillespie
wgillespie+dovecot at es2eng.com
Wed Dec 7 17:45:31 EET 2011
On 12/06/2011 03:13 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 17:12 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> The mailbox names require a namespace prefix, so if you use e.g. "INBOX." prefix you'll need to use:
>
> I changed these so that they are inside namespace {} section and don't
> require namespace prefix in the name. That way I can include common
> mailbox definitions in example-config and still allow the namespace
> prefix to be easily changed.
>
> 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?
> * "Sent" is used by Thunderbird, Evolution
> * "Sent Messages" is used by Apple Mail
>
> So I'm mainly wondering about "Sent" vs. "Sent Messages".
Outlook 2010 lets you select a mailbox for Trash and Sent (version 2007
only lets you select a mailbox for Sent messages).
Outlook default names for Trash is "Deleted Items" (as someone pointed
out) and for junk is "Junk E-mail".
Willie
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