dovecot - Jul 2013 - Dovecot Virtual Folders... could these be managed by a/the Client?

Hi all/Timo,

I was thinking about Thunderbirds ability to create Virtual folders 
allowing you to have many different views of your messages...

The downside though, is you only see these in Thunderbird.

I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual

But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client 
side...

For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird 
that allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, 
delete, rename, etc)?

Thanks,

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

Hi,

On 12.7.2013, at 16.21, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>
wrote:
> I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders:
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
> 
> But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client
side...
> 
> For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird
that allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, delete,
rename, etc)?
Currently Dovecot doesn't provide an IMAP level interface for managing
these. There have been two proposed IMAP extensions for these, but nothing
really came ouf ot those. It would be possible to add some new IMAP extension to
configure the virtual folders, but the main reason why there isn't one is
simply because I haven't thought anyone would bother to implement such spec.