user-defined special-use folders

[Teemu Huovila]

On 29.05.2017 12:31, Fabian Schmidt wrote:
> 
> I plan to define SPECIAL-USE mailboxes and think about defining per user special-use folders for those who don't use the default folder names. Is this possible in dovecot?
> 
> What I try:
> $ doveadm exec imap
> * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SEARCH=FUZZY METADATA SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as fschmidt
> a1 SETMETADATA "sent-mail" (/private/specialuse "\\Sent")
> a1 NO [CANNOT] The /private/specialuse attribute cannot be changed (0.008 + 0.000 + 0.008 secs).
Dovecot does not currently support setting SPECIAL-USE metadata. There are some plans to change this, but no firm timeline.

br,
Teemu

> 
> using dovecot 2.2.29.1, following the example in RFC 6154, sect. 5.4
> 
> (How is MAIL_ATTRIBUTE_INTERNAL_RANK_AUTHORITY defined or set?)
> 
> Fabian.