* Charles Marcus <dovecot@dovecot.org>: > On 9/25/2009, Stefan Förster (cite+dovecot-us...@incertum.net) wrote: > >> Has anyone seen an approach or a solution that solves the problem from a > >> users > >> point of view? A server side alias list that maps to a server standard? > > > Tried that, didn't work out that great (users got confused by 12 > > dozillion "sent" folders). > > Thats not how I read the OPs question... > > He wants to be able to configure some aliases server side so that if > someone is using different clients that expect, for example, different > folder names for the 'Sent' folder, it would map the expected name to a > single folder on the server... > > For example... > > $user accesses their imap account using Outlook at work and ThunderBird > at home. > > Outlook expects to use a 'Sent Items' folder, Thuderbird expects a > 'Sent' folder. > > The OP wants to be able to define the folder to be used on the server as > 'Sent', and map any *requests* for a 'Sent Items' folder to the 'Sent' > folder... > > So, each Client sees *only* what it expects, but only one folder on the > server is used - meaning, Outlook doesn't now have *both* a 'Sent* *and* > a 'Sent Items', it only has 'Sent Items', but this displays what is in > the 'Sent' folder on the server.
Yes. That is exactly the behaviour I was thinking of. And I wonder if it is possible... > I like the idea, but don't know how feasible it is... Same here :) p...@rick