[Dovecot] Folder aliases
Cor Bosman
cor at xs4all.nl
Thu Nov 13 14:18:25 EET 2008
> May be Outlook is buggy, but your mentioned Thunderbird has it's own
> issue:
>
> When I want to use german names for a user I setup his mail account
> with a folder named "Papierkorb" as trash folder (german
> translation). This can be used with many email clients without
> problems. But a german Thunderbird wants to create a new folder
> "Trash" and displays it as "Papierkorb". So what is the result? In
> Thunderbird I have two folders named as "Papierkorb" where I see in
> other clients a folder "Trash" and a folder "Papierkorb". (The same
> applies to sent, draft and templates folders.)
It's 'simply' a translation issue and one of the problems with translating
folder names. The same happens with roundcube, and I removed the folder
translation code from the source. It's just too confusing for people when
they end up with 2 folders that seem to have the same name.
Cor
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