mailboxes and capitalisation

[Thorsten Hater]

As far as I understand IMAP folders are -- largely -- case-sensitive, so I
need
to plan for Trash and trash (and worse), as there is no standard. Further,
I cannot
really expect all MUAs to honor special-use flags. My intention is to cover
the most
likely cases  with autoexpunge.

I am still wondering if this behaviour is correct, given the
case-sensitivity of IMAP.

Thorsten

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Steffen Kaiser <
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Tanstaafl wrote:
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>> On 12/13/2016 4:48 AM, Thorsten Hater <thorsten.hater at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have set up a series of special-use mailboxes in the default namespace
>>> differing by capitalisation of the names, mainly to capture multiple
>>> mailboxes
>>> with autoexpunge
>>>
>>> namespace inbox {
>>>   ...
>>>   mailbox Trash {
>>>     auto        = no
>>>     autoexpunge = 30d
>>>     special_use = \Trash
>>>   }
>>>   mailbox trash {
>>>     auto        = no
>>>     autoexpunge = 30d
>>>     special_use = \Trash
>>>   }
>>>
>>
>> Ugh... why create such a huge pain point for yourself?
>>
>> I would never allow case sensitivity for usernames, or mail storage.
>> Makes no sense.
>>
>
> it starts with missing standards and device- or application-specific ways
> to do the same thing.
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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