On Monday 25 August 2014 21:23:57 Per Jessen wrote:
Mihai Badici wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2014 21:03:26 Per Jessen wrote:
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
}
I think metadata support can do the job (and more) . See Kolab project
Well, let's stick to dovecot for now - how do people deal with this issue in dovecot?
You mean not people, but mail clients. There are plugins for roundcube, thunderbird ( ugly) kontact. Folders are "annotated" as: mail, contacts, calendar etc. You can associate each folder with an annotation, as, let say, a label. But your client need to read that annotation.
In fact as I know Roundcube can do a "translation" of folder names ( you can asign "Sent Mails" as "Gesendete Elemente" in it's config) but if you want a more complex solution I think metadata is the right (and heavy) way.
-- Mihai Bădici http://mihai.badici.ro