Special-Use Mailboxes ?

[Per Jessen]

Per Jessen wrote:

> Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Per Jessen <per at computer.org>:
>> 
>>> Lots of people must have had this issue before me - users using
>>> different devices&software (pc, smartphone, tablet, thunderbird,
>>> outlook, webmail) and languages (e.g. English on the PC, German on
>>> the iPhone), some folders end of with different names - e.g. "Sent"
>>> and "Gesendete Elemente" - meaning the same thing, namely "sent
>>> mails".
>>>
>>> How do you map these to just one folder such that it shows up
>>> correctly independently of what the user happens to be using?
>>>
>>> It sounds like something for the
>>>
>>> mailbox "Sent" {
>>>    special_use = \Drafts
>>> }
>>>
>>> config directive?  Is that what it might be used for?
>>>
>>> mailbox "Sent" {
>>>    special_use = \Sent
>>> }
>>> mailbox "Gesendete Elemente" {
>>>    special_use = \Sent
>>> }
>> 
>> Remember that SPECIAL-USE flags are informational.  A MUA remains
>> free to do anything they want regarding where they save sent
>> messages.
>> 
>> An option is to use virtual mailboxes to map to a single master Sent
>> mailbox.  But you then have to define all possible combinations of
>> Sent mailbox labels, so it's not foolproof either.
> 
> I wasn't aware of the virtual plugin, thanks.  Like you say, this
> looks like defining one virtual mailbox "Sent" to cover all of the
> various
> names, depending on MUA and language.  Similar for Draft, Junk, and
> Trash.  Does anyone have as working example?

I'm trying to get my head around this - the special_use flag is given
out to an IMAP client as a _hint_ of where certain messages belong?  If
that's correct, what would be the purpose of having two (or more) such
hints for e.g. \Sent ?


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