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

[Charles Marcus]

On 3/14/2014 9:43 PM, Aleve Sicofante <asicofante at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-03-05 13:07 GMT+01:00 Charles Marcus<CMarcus at media-brokers.com>:
>> 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.

Ok, but... where would that be? I don't see a 'Where to start' to point 
to...

And, well, if subscribed and voted, you could easily add that yourself, 
no? ;)

> 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?

Since I am not a google+ subscriber (and have no desire to become one), 
and cannot read whatever you're talking about, I have no clue.

It's never a good idea to link to protected content for things like this.

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Best regards,

Charles