Hallo Andreas, A. Schulze <[email protected]> (So 14 Feb 2016 12:47:19 CET): > > Am 13.02.2016 um 23:24 schrieb Heiko Schlittermann: > >it seems that Squirrel mail uses Mailbox annotations for storing Expire > >times on the Server. It's an Cyrus server currently. (I've no clue how > >cyrexpire is able to read it's information from the annotiations) > > > >Does dovecot support some similiar mechanism? Or - does anybody know > >anything about how it's supposed to work on Cyrus and how it can be > >emulated/simulated with dovecot? > > maybe metadata could be used. > > dovecot.conf: > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ > mail_attribute_dict = file:Maildir/dovecot-metadata > imap_metadata = yes >
Hm.
ANNOTATE RFC 5257
METADATA RFC 5464
Does METADATA cover ANNOTATION? I'll try to find that out and I'll
report success or failure here on that lits.
> $ doveadm mailbox metadata set -u user INBOX/subfolder
> /private/my_expire_info 5
> -> is saved in ~user/Mailfir/dovecot-metadata
>
> $ doveadm mailbox metadata get -u user INBOX/subfolder /private/my_expire_info
> 5
>
> now you could iterate over all mailboxes and all users and do magic things.
> unsolved: how could a user set values?
I believe, that's done via the IMAP ANNOTATE extension. I see it for the
very first time and so I've to investigate it further.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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