Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension [1 answer, 1 followup]

2018-01-24 Thread Joseph Tam
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Joseph Tam wrote: I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension, but have a few questions for those who have used them, or are knowledgable about its use. Thanks to all who contributed, even if the answer was "it depends". After

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On Wed Jan 17 2018 15:56:39 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joseph Tam wrote: > Thanks. How does this manifests itself: the client gets an inconsistent > view of the outgoing mailbox that depends on which mailbox the client > is using, or the optimization is broken and

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-19 Thread Joseph Tam
Aki Tuomi writes: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias There is also gotcha that MailboxAlias is not compatible with mailbox_list_index=yes setting. Thanks. How does this manifests itself: the client gets an inconsistent view of the outgoing mailbox that depends on which mailbox

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-16 Thread Aki Tuomi
On 16.01.2018 17:54, Tanstaafl wrote: > On Mon Jan 15 2018 18:11:24 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joseph Tam > wrote: >> Tanstaafl writes: >> Is this what you are looking for? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-15 Thread Joseph Tam
Tanstaafl writes: Is this what you are looking for? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias It seems already be implemented... A first step maybe, but no, not quite. So what are the gotchas of using this? How much does this free lunch cost? Joseph Tam

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On Fri Jan 12 2018 17:02:29 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joseph Tam wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> There was a similar discussion about this on list some time ago, about >> whether or not Dovecot could utilize special use 'aliases' that your

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-12 Thread Joseph Tam
Steffen Kaiser wrote: I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE well, in my experience SPECIAL-USE is just a suggestions to clients. Check RFC 6154 for MUSTs, you'll find only few. Hence, how the client (or the server) behaves in a special

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On Fri Jan 12 2018 15:58:06 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Pedro Ribeiro wrote: > Is this what you are looking for? > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias > > It seems already be implemented... A first step maybe, but no, not quite.

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-12 Thread Pedro Ribeiro
Is this what you are looking for? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias It seems already be implemented... regards. On 2018/01/12 14:25, Tanstaafl wrote: On Fri Jan 12 2018 01:29:37 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On Fri Jan 12 2018 01:29:37 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Joseph Tam wrote: >> I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE > well, in my experience SPECIAL-USE is just a suggestions to clients.

Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-11 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Joseph Tam wrote: I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE well, in my experience SPECIAL-USE is just a suggestions to clients. Check RFC 6154 for MUSTs, you'll find only few. Hence, how the

Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension

2018-01-11 Thread Joseph Tam
I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension, but have a few questions for those who have used them, or are knowledgable about its use. Using this configuration as an example, namespace { ... mailbox xxx {