Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Christian Lange wrote:
Different clients can normally have different sets of folder subscriptions, would that not do what you want?
If you use different devices, e.g. a mobile phone or PDA and Outlook or Thunderbird, you get in troubles, because both may have a very specific view on the folders on IMAP, but the user wants to have all sent mails in one folder, not to mention all deleted mail.
This goes on, if you want to do server-side stuff, e.g. clean the trash-folder now and then etc. Even the trash folder is _not_ fixed by standard. Elder versions of Mozilla and Outlook used localized names for their folders, so even the native language effected the names.
The alias-feature alone will not overcome the problems, because the admin (or user) still needs to configure the aliases for a specific set of mail clients.
I am aware of that, but I don't see how that is related to Daniel's second suggestion to show a different set of folders to different clients based on client ID or different login names if that is not possible.
- Christian