Special-Use Mailboxes ?

Per Jessen per at computer.org
Mon Aug 25 19:23:57 UTC 2014


Mihai Badici wrote:

> On Monday 25 August 2014 21:03:26 Per Jessen wrote:
>> 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
>> }
> 
> I think metadata support can do the job (and more) . See Kolab project

Well, let's stick to dovecot for now - how do people deal with this
issue in dovecot?



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