[Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

[Robert Schetterer]

Patrick Ben Koetter schrieb:
> * Charles Marcus <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
>> On 9/25/2009, Stefan Förster (cite+dovecot-users at incertum.net) 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?
>>> Tried that, didn't work out that great (users got confused by 12
>>> dozillion "sent" folders).
>> Thats not how I read the OPs question...
>>
>> He wants to be able to configure some aliases server side so that if
>> someone is using different clients that expect, for example, different
>> folder names for the 'Sent' folder, it would map the expected name to a
>> single folder on the server...
>>
>> For example...
>>
>> $user accesses their imap account using Outlook at work and ThunderBird
>> at home.
>>
>> Outlook expects to use a 'Sent Items' folder, Thuderbird expects a
>> 'Sent' folder.
>>
>> The OP wants to be able to define the folder to be used on the server as
>> 'Sent', and map any *requests* for a 'Sent Items' folder to the 'Sent'
>> folder...
>>
>> So, each Client sees *only* what it expects, but only one folder on the
>> server is used - meaning, Outlook doesn't now have *both* a 'Sent* *and*
>> a 'Sent Items', it only has 'Sent Items', but this displays what is in
>> the 'Sent' folder on the server.
> 
> Yes. That is exactly the behaviour I was thinking of. And I wonder if it is
> possible...
> 
>> I like the idea, but don't know how feasible it is...
> 
> Same here :)
> 
> p at rick
> 
sent folder is configurable in outlook since vers 2007 i think,
in 2003 there is a workaround with rules as far i remember

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