Special-Use Mailboxes ?

Michael M Slusarz
Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:21:01 -0000

Quoting Per Jessen <per at computer.org>:

> Lots of people must have had this issue before me - users using
> different devices&software (pc, smartphone, tablet, thunderbird,
> outlook, webmail) and languages (e.g. English on the PC, German on the
> iPhone), some folders end of with different names - e.g. "Sent"
> and "Gesendete Elemente" - meaning the same thing, namely
"sent mails".
>
> How do you map these to just one folder such that it shows up correctly
> independently of what the user happens to be using?
>
> It sounds like something for the
>
> mailbox "Sent" {
>    special_use = \Drafts
> }
>
> config directive?  Is that what it might be used for?
>
> mailbox "Sent" {
>    special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Gesendete Elemente" {
>    special_use = \Sent
> }

Remember that SPECIAL-USE flags are informational.  A MUA remains free
to do anything they want regarding where they save sent messages.

An option is to use virtual mailboxes to map to a single master Sent
mailbox.  But you then have to define all possible combinations of
Sent mailbox labels, so it's not foolproof either.

michael