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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Aleve Sicofante <asicofante at gmail.com>:

>>
>>  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? ;)

This isn't going to happen in thunderbird, outside of someone writing  
code for thunderbird to login to the dovecot server (via SSH with an  
admin/root password), find the dovecot config files on the server  
(which will vary based on each server), edit the dovecot config  
non-interactively, and then be be able to restart the dovecot server  
to make the changes stick (which, again, will vary based on each  
server).  I would guess there is about a none percent chance of that  
occurring.

> You can read what he says in this very thread. I'm not a google+ user
> either. He just says Dovecot's virtual mailboxes are intended for admins
> only, not for clients. It doesn't sound logical, but that's what he says.

This is exactly what I said previously in this thread.  And it is a  
100% accurate statement.

The ONLY way this can be implemented client-side is if there are some  
sort of standardized IMAP commands that the client can use to alter  
the mailboxes.  There isn't.

In general, IMAP 4 doesn't allow a command to work on multiple  
mailboxes at a single time (outside of MULTISEARCH... but that's one  
reason why MULTISEARCH is experimental and really hasn't provoked much  
interest).  That's why virtual mailboxes don't conceptually work very  
well as a server-level entity and instead make much more sense as a  
client-level feature.

michael