Special-Use Mailboxes ?
Michael M Slusarz
slusarz at curecanti.org
Mon Aug 25 19:21:01 UTC 2014
Quoting Per Jessen <per at computer.org>:
> Lots of people must have had this issue before me - users using
> different devices&software (pc, smartphone, tablet, thunderbird,
> outlook, webmail) and languages (e.g. English on the PC, German on the
> iPhone), some folders end of with different names - e.g. "Sent"
> and "Gesendete Elemente" - meaning the same thing, namely "sent mails".
>
> How do you map these to just one folder such that it shows up correctly
> independently of what the user happens to be using?
>
> It sounds like something for the
>
> mailbox "Sent" {
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
>
> config directive? Is that what it might be used for?
>
> mailbox "Sent" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Gesendete Elemente" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
Remember that SPECIAL-USE flags are informational. A MUA remains free
to do anything they want regarding where they save sent messages.
An option is to use virtual mailboxes to map to a single master Sent
mailbox. But you then have to define all possible combinations of
Sent mailbox labels, so it's not foolproof either.
michael
More information about the dovecot
mailing list