Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension
Joseph Tam
jtam.home at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 04:41:02 EET 2018
I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE
extension, but have a few questions for those who have used them, or
are knowledgable about its use. Using this configuration as an example,
namespace {
...
mailbox xxx {
special_use = \Sent
}
}
Q1) Am I correct that mail client that don't understand SPECIAL-USE
extentions will behave the same way with repect to outgoing mailbox
storage?
Q2) Will SPECIAL-USE enabled mail clients switch the mailbox used for
outgoing mail from whatever it was using (e.g. "Sent Mail") to the
(new) special-use mailbox "xxx"?
Q3) Will SPECIAL-USE enabled mail clients connecting for the first
time use "xxx" for outgoing mail, auto-creating it if necessary?
Or will "xxx" be used only if the user does not manually configure
a mailbox for this purpose?
Q4) If I have an additional configuration
mailbox yyy {
special_use = \Sent
}
how does it affect Q2, Q3?
Thanks to any who can provide clarity on this.
Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
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