dovecot - Mar 2016 - Multiple IMAP Mailboxes and one collection folder

Hello,

we use many IMAP folders and now we are searching for a way to display
all mails inside this folders in one collecting folder.

The advantage for us would be the possibility to view all new incoming
mails in one folder. It would be possible to use the standard MAIL App
on the iOS without problems.

I could simply make a copy of all mails in one folder with Sieve, but
then the Per-user Seen Flag would be useless, because the mail inside
the folder is still unread.

Is there a way to show some way of collecting folder for every user?

Thanks

Dieter

On 2016-03-30 18:09, Dieter Knopf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we use many IMAP folders and now we are searching for a way to display
> all mails inside this folders in one collecting folder.
> 
> The advantage for us would be the possibility to view all new incoming
> mails in one folder. It would be possible to use the standard MAIL App
> on the iOS without problems.
> 
> I could simply make a copy of all mails in one folder with Sieve, but
> then the Per-user Seen Flag would be useless, because the mail inside
> the folder is still unread.
Maybe something for the virtual plugin 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
> Is there a way to show some way of collecting folder for every user?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dieter
-- 
  Christian Kivalo

Hello Christian,

thanks for the info. This works fine except the Per-user seen flag.

I have multiple public namespaces, like:
# prefix: FOO
# location =
maildir:/home/vmail/foo.eu/info/MAILDIR:INBOX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/info/MAILDIR/.INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/info/S_INDEX:INDEXPVT=/home/vmail/foo.eu/info/S_INDEXPVT/%u

Now i added a virtual folder with this config in the dovecot-virtual:
# FOO/*
#  unseen

But all messages are unread, because the INDEXPVT is private.

Thanks

2016-03-30 19:33 GMT+02:00 Christian Kivalo <ml+dovecot at
valo.at>:
> On 2016-03-30 18:09, Dieter Knopf wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> we use many IMAP folders and now we are searching for a way to display
>> all mails inside this folders in one collecting folder.
>>
>> The advantage for us would be the possibility to view all new incoming
>> mails in one folder. It would be possible to use the standard MAIL App
>> on the iOS without problems.
>>
>> I could simply make a copy of all mails in one folder with Sieve, but
>> then the Per-user Seen Flag would be useless, because the mail inside
>> the folder is still unread.
>
>
> Maybe something for the virtual plugin
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
>
>
>> Is there a way to show some way of collecting folder for every user?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dieter
>
>
> --
>  Christian Kivalo