Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

[Aki Tuomi]

On 16.01.2018 17:54, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On Mon Jan 15 2018 18:11:24 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joseph Tam
> <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> writes:
>>
>>>> Is this what you are looking for?
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias
>>>>
>>>> It seems already be implemented...
>>> A first step maybe, but no, not quite.
>> So what are the gotchas of using this?
> Read? From the link:
>
> "This doesn't magically solve the problem of showing clients e.g.
> multiple Sent mailboxes, but it can be used to make sure that all of the
> different variants will have the same mails in them. Unfortunately it
> also means that some clients will download the same mails to local cache
> multiple times."
>
>> How much does this free lunch cost?
> ? However much time it takes you to implement it?

There is also gotcha that MailboxAlias is not compatible with
mailbox_list_index=yes setting.

Aki