[Dovecot] RFE: IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes

Patrick Ben Koetter p at state-of-mind.de
Sat Mar 12 01:52:02 EET 2011


* Timo Sirainen <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> On 11.3.2011, at 23.57, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> 
> > would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use
> > Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time near in the
> > future?
> 
> This has been requested before. I'm still just wondering what would be a
> good way to configure this. The possibilities are basically:

You and I had mailed about this about a year ago. Then I went out to ask
IETF make it a standard. Now that it has become a standard I am back. :)


> a) imap_specialuse = \Drafts Drafts \Sent "Sent Messages" ..etc..
> 
> b)
> imap_specialuse_drafts = Drafts
> imap_specialuse_sent = Sent Messages
> ..etc..
> 
> c) imap_specialuse = /etc/dovecot/specialuse.conf.ext
> and the file contains:
> 
> \Sent Sent Messages
> \Drafts Drafts
> ..etc..
> 
> I don't really like any of them. Maybe there's a d) that I haven't thought of yet.
> 
> The spec also supports the possibility of allowing clients to move the tags
> around, and of course it would be nice if Dovecot supported that too. Only
> c) makes it even theoretically possible by having imap_specialuse =
> ~/.dovecot.specialuse

Yes, looks as if c) could cover all parts of the RFC.

p at rick

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