[Dovecot] dovecot-virtual folder configuration

Pierre serarien at baqs.net
Wed Sep 21 15:02:52 EEST 2011


Ok, named this "VIRTUAL" at the moment...

Strange behaviour:
this unread folder does not get refreshed, even if I refresh 'all' folder.

I read something about putting index file in memory which could solve the
problem. Is this reliable ?

Pierre

On 18/sept. - 19:06, Pierre wrote:
> Thanks for the tip Timo.
> 
> I was trying to make this work, when I got stupid issue:
> I named my namespace "#virtual", but putting "#"
> at the beginning of dovecot-virtual line makes it be
> a comment.
> 
> I tryed with '#", \#... without success
> 
> Is there any method to make it work ?
> 
> thx,
> Pierre
> 
> On 16/sept. - 15:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 00:58 +0200, Pierre wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Long story short, I'd like to configure a folder containing:
> > > 
> > > INBOX
> > > (some other folders)
> > > 
> > > -> unseen emails from these folders + all other emails (also seen) from 
> > > the same thread
> > > -> seen emails from these folders, but only the recent ones + all other 
> > > emails from the same thread
> > 
> > The "other mails from same thread" is still a bit problematic with
> > virtual folders. From my TODO:
> > 
> >  - virtual: If last message matching INTHREAD rule gets expunged, the rest of
> >    the thread doesn't go away
> > 
> > First you'll need to create a virtual folder that has all the mails that
> > you would ever want to see in threads. For example:
> > 
> > virtual/all/dovecot-virtual:
> > -----
> > INBOX
> > Sent
> > some
> > other
> > folders
> >   all
> > -----
> > 
> > Then based on that create the virtual mailbox you want:
> > 
> > virtual/newstuff/dovecot-virtual:
> > -----
> > virtual/all
> >   inthread refs or unseen recent
> > -----
> > 


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