dovecot - May 2010 - draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-01 - IMAP LIST extension for special-use mailboxes

On 20.05.2010 13:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 20.5.2010, at 11.10, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>
>> 	What you think about this draft is it good enough to make patch based
on it for dovecot? We would like to see this functionality in 2.0 dovecot
release but it's not clear when this draft become standards track. Will you
accept patch based on drafts?
>
> Have you read the discussion about it in morg list? I don't remember
what the last conclusions were :) Anyway I'd probably accept patch to
Dovecot, but maybe not yet advertise supporting SPECIAL-USE in capability.
>
> But the main thing I'm not sure about is where should the flag
information be stored? Should it even be per-user option? If yes, should it
maybe be combined with autocreate plugin?
>
Yeah advertise SPECIAL-USE before IANA registred keyword isn't good thing.

I don't think this really need per-user option. This is basically 
"system folders" and MUA will decide on their local names. Combining 
with autocreate plugin seems reasonable.

On 20.05.2010 14:40, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 20.5.2010, at 12.11, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>
>> I don't think this really need per-user option. This is basically
"system folders" and MUA will decide on their local names. Combining
with autocreate plugin seems reasonable.
>
> Autocreate plugin would be useful only if it was a per-user option. Then it
could create some kind of a file into the created mailbox.
>
> If it was a global option .. could it be just something as simple as
>
> list_specialuse = \Trash:Trash "\Sent:Sent Messages" etc.
>
> or
>
> list_specialuse_trash = Trash
> list_specialuse_sent = Sent
> etc.
>
> I don't really like either of them..
>
What's wrong with these examples for global option, second one looks 
good for me.

On to, 2010-05-20 at 15:48 +0400, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
> On 20.05.2010 15:41, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >>> list_specialuse = \Trash:Trash "\Sent:Sent Messages"
etc.
> > Quoting is annoying.
> >
> 
> Hmm, maybe use predefined order of folders? In this case quoting will be 
> used where it necessary
> list_sepcialuse = Inbox,Drafts,"Sent Messages",etc
Quoting is still annoying to handle. Probably best to implement this
without a plugin and then you can use:

list-specialuse {
  trash = Trash
  sent = Sent Messages
  ..
}