ANNOTATE plugin? Squirrel uses it for EXPIRATION information

[Heiko Schlittermann]

Hallo Andreas,

A. Schulze <sca at andreasschulze.de> (So 14 Feb 2016 12:47:19 CET):
> 
> Am 13.02.2016 um 23:24 schrieb Heiko Schlittermann:
> >it seems that Squirrel mail uses Mailbox annotations for storing Expire
> >times on the Server. It's an Cyrus server currently. (I've no clue how
> >cyrexpire is able to read it's information from the annotiations)
> >
> >Does dovecot support some similiar mechanism? Or - does anybody know
> >anything about how it's supposed to work on Cyrus and how it can be
> >emulated/simulated with dovecot?
> 
> maybe metadata could be used.
> 
> dovecot.conf:
>   mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/
>   mail_attribute_dict = file:Maildir/dovecot-metadata
>   imap_metadata = yes
> 

Hm.

    ANNOTATE RFC 5257
    METADATA RFC 5464

Does METADATA cover ANNOTATION? I'll try to find that out and I'll
report success or failure here on that lits.

> $ doveadm mailbox metadata set -u user INBOX/subfolder /private/my_expire_info 5
> -> is saved in ~user/Mailfir/dovecot-metadata
> 
> $ doveadm mailbox metadata get -u user INBOX/subfolder /private/my_expire_info
> 5
> 
> now you could iterate over all mailboxes and all users and do magic things.
> unsolved: how could a user set values?

I believe, that's done via the IMAP ANNOTATE extension. I see it for the
very first time and so I've to investigate it further.

    Best regards from Dresden/Germany
    Viele Grüße aus Dresden
    Heiko Schlittermann
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