Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

[Tanstaafl]

On Fri Jan 12 2018 17:02:29 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joseph Tam
<jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> ...
>> Personally I would love to see this implemented.

> Yeah, that would be cool.  For an existing installation, though, an admin
> might have merge all existing mailboxes into the one actual mailbox to
> keep the confusion down.

Actually, properly coded and configured, I don't see why this couldn't
be handled automatically by dovecot.