Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Joseph Tam wrote:

> I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE

well, in my experience SPECIAL-USE is just a suggestions to clients. Check 
RFC 6154 for MUSTs, you'll find only few. Hence, how the client (or the 
server) behaves in a special case is implementor-defined.

I do expect that any client supporting SPECIAL-USE honors the server 
setting (first time it connects to the server or everytime, but at least 
once) and creates the mailboxes it uses itself.

Otherwise, Dovecot can autocreate the mailboxes regardless of its use: 
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings

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Steffen Kaiser
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