[Dovecot] Any client out there taking advantage of Dovecot's virtual mailboxes?

Aleve Sicofante asicofante at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 01:43:46 UTC 2014


2014-03-05 13:07 GMT+01:00 Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com>:

> On 3/4/2014 4:00 PM, Muzaffer Tolga Ozses <tolga at ozses.net> wrote:
>
>> On 4 March 2014 19:21, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/3/2014 8:43 PM, Aleve Sicofante <asicofante at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wish to know if someone knows an IMAP client (desktop or webmail)
>>>> using
>>>> Dovecot's virtual mailboxes as server-side search folders.
>>>>
>>>
>  I'm also interested in this. What I'd really like to see is support in
>>> Thunderbird for this.
>>>
>>> Thunderbird already has support for virtual folders, but I'd love to see
>>> this support extended to server-side virtual folders - ie, so Thunderbird
>>> could create and manage them directly on the server.
>>>
>>
>  Could you elaborate? I'm using virtual mailboxes, but I'm not sure if
>> that's what you're talking about. If you mean no system accounts, that's
>> my
>> setup.
>>
>
> Please don't top-post...
>
> Yes, dovecot's 'virtual mailboxes' is essentially the same thing
> conceptually as Thunderbird's 'Virtual Folders', but dovecot does it
> server-side (and all clients automatically see the virtual mailboxes as if
> they were real folders).
>
> Thunderbird does it client side, so it is *much* less efficient, and it is
> local only to that instance of Thunderbird (so, no other clients see those
> virtual folders).
>
> Hmmm... I could have sworn I opened a bug about this way back when dovecot
> added support for this, but I guess I didn't...
>
> So, I just did... feel free to go vote for it:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979846
>


OK. Subscribed and voted, but the bug should point to "where to start" in
Dovecot's documentation. Which point would that be? Is it documented how to
remotely manage virtual mailboxes? According to Michael
Slusarz<https://plus.google.com/u/0/109836422377797506418?prsrc=4>this
is not possible and we're misinterpreting the use of virtual mailboxes
by Dovecot...

Who's right?


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