Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

[Pedro Ribeiro]

Is this what you are looking for?

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias

It seems already be implemented...

regards.


On 2018/01/12 14:25, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On Fri Jan 12 2018 01:29:37 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Steffen
> Kaiser <skdovecot at inf.h-brs.de> wrote:
>> 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
> There was a similar discussion about this on list some time ago, about
> whether or not Dovecot could utilize special use 'aliases' that your
> clients may want to use by default, and Dovecot would automatically map
> those requests to a single mailbox.
>
> E.g.:
>
> Outlook clients would see/use 'Sent Items'
>
> Thunderbird would see/use 'Sent'
>
> But both would be mapped to a single mailbox 'Sent' (or whatever you had
> defined as the actual mailbox).
>
> Personally I would love to see this implemented.

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