dovecot - Mar 2011 - RFE: IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes

Timo,

would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use
Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time near
in the
future?

I would really love to get rid of all those folders created by all those
different mail clients just because they can't agree to use the same folder
for special purpose.

Obviously clients need to support it too. Having Dovecot support it certainly
would make them adopt the standard sooner.

p at rick

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On 2011-03-11 4:57 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> Timo,
> 
> would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for
Special-Use
> Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time
near in the
> future?
> 
> I would really love to get rid of all those folders created by all those
> different mail clients just because they can't agree to use the same
folder
> for special purpose.
How would implementation of this extension solve that problem??

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Best regards,

Charles

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:57:39PM +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter
wrote:
> Timo,
> 
> would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for
Special-Use
> Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time
near in the
> future?
> 
> I would really love to get rid of all those folders created by all those
> different mail clients just because they can't agree to use the same
folder
> for special purpose.
I would strongly endorse this request.
> Obviously clients need to support it too. Having Dovecot support it
certainly
> would make them adopt the standard sooner.

On 11.3.2011, at 23.57, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for
Special-Use
> Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time
near in the
> future?
This has been requested before. I'm still just wondering what would be a
good way to configure this. The possibilities are basically:

a) imap_specialuse = \Drafts Drafts \Sent "Sent Messages" ..etc..

b)
imap_specialuse_drafts = Drafts
imap_specialuse_sent = Sent Messages
..etc..

c) imap_specialuse = /etc/dovecot/specialuse.conf.ext
and the file contains:

\Sent Sent Messages
\Drafts Drafts
..etc..

I don't really like any of them. Maybe there's a d) that I haven't
thought of yet.

The spec also supports the possibility of allowing clients to move the tags
around, and of course it would be nice if Dovecot supported that too. Only c)
makes it even theoretically possible by having imap_specialuse =
~/.dovecot.specialuse

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if this got implemented? I've been 
looking at doing this for quite some time...

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 >Timo,
 >
 >would you consider adding support for "IMAP LIST Extension for 
 >Special-Use
 >Mailboxes" <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6154.txt> any time
near
 >in the
 >future?
 >
 >I would really love to get rid of all those folders created by all
>those
 >different mail clients just because they can't agree to use the same 
 >folder
 >for special purpose.
 >
 >Obviously clients need to support it too. Having Dovecot support it 
 >certainly
 >would make them adopt the standard sooner.

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