Re: [Dovecot] Folder Aliases - Revisited Yet Again Four Years Later

On 11.4.2012, at 8.12, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Yes, this is much easier with v2.1 I think. The new listescape plugin is just a tiny wrapper that will probably just be replaced by a setting some day in future. I haven't actually tried to write such alias plugin though.

Here: http://dovecot.org/patches/2.1/mailbox-alias-plugin.c

But as it is, it doesn't really work in a useful way, since e.g.:

x create real x OK Create completed. x list "" real x OK List completed. x list "" alias

• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "alias" x OK List completed. x create real x NO [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox already exists x status real (messages)
• STATUS "real" (MESSAGES 0) x OK Status completed.

Perhaps a more useful feature would be if LIST showed both alias and real? That would need a bit more code.