Merging existing mailboxes to aliases

[Sami Ketola]

> On 19 May 2019, at 7.08, Lefteris Tsintjelis via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to merge all, existing or not, different mailboxes in one with the mailbox alias plugin. If I add the following lines, will the existing mailboxes automatically merge in one mailbox and corresponding links auto create? If not, do I have to do this manually?
> 
>  mailbox_alias_new = Spam
>  mailbox_alias_new2 = Junk E-mail
>  mailbox_alias_new3 = Sent Items
>  mailbox_alias_new4 = Sent Messages
>  mailbox_alias_new5 = Deleted Items
>  mailbox_alias_old = Junk
>  mailbox_alias_old2 = Junk
>  mailbox_alias_old3 = Sent
>  mailbox_alias_old4 = Sent
>  mailbox_alias_old5 = Trash


Why do you want to do this? Thunderbird does obey special_use flags.  https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings

Do you have other clients then that do not honor those?

Sami