[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Stefan Förster]

* Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de>:
> * Timo Sirainen <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
>> No. And one of the first commands they typically do is LIST. So
>> there are no good ways to solve this.
> 
> I suspected that.
> 
> Would it be possible to identify a client by the folders it tries to subscribe
> to?

You could, of course, have a list of folders to hide in a LIST
command. Most clients would then try to create those folders (a
request which is ignored) and the IMAP server had to redirect all
further select requests. Something along the lines of:

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ignore-aliases-in-list-or-create-command-and-redirect-select:
sent-mail   gesendet/i,gesendete nachrichten/i,sent\(-mail\)?/i
trash       trash/i,junk/i,geloeschte\ objekte/i

> User interaction or server side configuration is fine if it takes place in a
> company, but its not feasible in an ISP environment.

A corporate environment doesn't need that kind of functionality. Just
preconfigure all installed software to suit your company's needs.


Ciao
Stefan
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