[Dovecot] questions about SPECIAL-USE and virtual

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.4.2012, at 15.47, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 2012-04-23 8:33 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> The auto=subscribe can automatically subscribe the virtual mailbox,
>> but it can't automatically create it, because new virtual mailboxes
>> can't be created by IMAP clients.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> Thunderbird has the ability to create virtual mailboxes too, but obviously they are created and handled locally, not on the server...
> 
> How much trouble would it be to add an API so that an IMAP client *could* create and manage them on a dovecot server? And Maybe this would be a good candidate for an RFC spec?

There have been a few drafts about virtual mailboxes, but they died at some point. I guess it could be implemented, but I'm less certain that there's actual need for it.