Special-Use Mailboxes ?

[Per Jessen]

Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> 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.

I wasn't aware of the virtual plugin, thanks.  Like you say, this looks
like defining one virtual mailbox "Sent" to cover all of the various
names, depending on MUA and language.  Similar for Draft, Junk, and
Trash.  Does anyone have as working example? 


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