[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>>> Has anyone seen an approach or a solution that solves the problem  
>>> from a users
>>> point of view? A server side alias list that maps to a server  
>>> standard?
>> Symlinks maybe? Or something similar done internally. The main  
>> problem would anyway be LIST command, should it show all of them or  
>> somehow try to figure out which one to show?
>
> Do the clients identify which program they are?

No. And one of the first commands they typically do is LIST. So there  
are no good ways to solve this.

Although I haven't really seen much problems myself. Linux clients  
allow changing what mailboxes they use, so I just configure them to  
use the same as Apple Mail..