[Dovecot] IMAP ANNOTATE Extension RFC5257

[Sebastian Schlatow]

On Mi, 2014-01-22 at 14:14 -0700, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> Quoting Robert Schetterer <rs at sys4.de>:
> 
> > Am 21.01.2014 20:31, schrieb Sebastian Schlatow:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Does Dovecot support the IMAP ANNOTATE Extension RFC5257
> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5257? If not, are there any plans to
> >> implement the extension? If not, why there is no plan to implement this
> >> feature?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Sebastian
> >>
> >
> > not sure about how up2date these are, and whats allready done
> >
> > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-February/088305.html
> > http://www.imapwiki.org/Specs
> > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Roadmap
> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-metadata-plugin
> 
> And FWIW, that RFC is classified as Experimental.  Hasn't been a bunch  
> of momentum behind it, at least in terms of adoption/implementations.   
> Mailbox metadata seems to be the more interesting development at this  
> time (RFC 5464).
> 
> michael
> 
Yes, I know, but for groupware collaboration on mails, it is an useful
feature. Especially in companies, where an extreme group based workflow
is used.