[Dovecot] Outlook 2013 - mounting folders with XLIST

[Hajo Locke]

Hello,


> if your brave you may try , no idea if that might work

> MFCMAPI

> http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/renamedefaultfolders.htm
> http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/rename-outlooks-default-folders/

thanks, the MFCMAPI way is working, but i'm afraid that only experienced 
users will have success.

i think about of moving all the special_folders stuff to userdb and let 
every user decide on its own.
2 reasons.

1: outlook 2013 and may be other clients only work correct if 
special_folders on server are autocreated (auto=subscribe). Even when adding 
the special_folders later manually, outlook 2013 would not use them for 
current account. i had to delete and recreate the account to get it work 
again. autocreate and subscription seems to be really needed. This folders 
may be annoying for users who dont use a "special_folders client".

2. if microsoft has choosen to not map local folders to serverfolders, i 
expect a lot of support effort to explain why folder names are like this. 
even if i decide to use german names on server, there will be complains by 
other users who wants to have there own preferred foldernames.

moving all this to a userdb lookup is really not in the purpose of rfc 6154, 
but seems to be for me the best compromise.

i dont know which way i will go, but already tried the userdb-thing. without 
suceess.
I want to know if this will work from pure technical side and deside later 
to use or to discard this possibility.

A good way to do this seems to be the userdb_import field:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields

i reduced the special_folders part in conf file to:
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
}


then i added text-field to my MySQL Table mail_users and inserted a text 
like this: 
namespace/inbox/hallohallo/auto=subscribe<TAB>namespace/inbox/hallohallo/special_use=\Sent

Also i edited the password_query (i use userdb prefetch)

password_query = SELECT `inbox` as `user`, `password`, `home` as 
userdb_home, `uid` AS userdb_uid, `gid` AS userdb_gid, userdb_import as 
userdb_userdb_import FROM `mail_users` WHERE `login` = '%u' AND `active`='Y'

This results in no error but also no effect. Verbose logging did show a line 
like this:

Mar 25 13:16:49 myhostname dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER 
3613786113      myuser        home=/home/myuser     uid=1004        gid=1000
        namespace/inbox/hallohallo/auto=subscribe^Atnamespace/inbox/hallohallo/special_use=\Sent
Looks not really bad, but is not working.
What did i wrong? I would like to get this work to have a plan B.


Thanks,
Hajo