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".
- 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