Re: [Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter p@sys4.de:
That's part of what makes SPECIAL-USE so sexy. It is language independent. All it does is say "This mailbox is reserved for that particular usage." How you call it, is up to you (client).
Well.... not quite. The problem comes when you have *multiple* sent mailboxes on your server, which is perfectly acceptable and quite useful (e.g. an MUA allows multiple identities, and each identity uses a separate sent-mail mailbox). You can't just blindly show the local translation for "Sent" for all of the mailboxes, or else you've now eliminated the user's ability to differentiate between them.
On a related topic, what's the easiest way to alias various common mailbox names to one physical mailbox? For example, mapping "Trash", "Deleted Messages", "Junk" to the same mailbox?
Would you use the SPECIAL-USE, or is there a better way to do this? Namescape configuration? Virtual plugin?
Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com
On 6.2.2013, at 6.51, Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com wrote:
On a related topic, what's the easiest way to alias various common mailbox names to one physical mailbox? For example, mapping "Trash", "Deleted Messages", "Junk" to the same mailbox?
Would you use the SPECIAL-USE, or is there a better way to do this? Namescape configuration? Virtual plugin?
Ideally SPECIAL-USE will take care of it in future. For now you should configure it, but also realize that it won't work for all clients. There's also mailbox_alias plugin in v2.1.10+: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias (the link will work in a few minutes).
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