[Dovecot] Dovecot Virtual Folders... could these be managed by a/the Client?

[Charles Marcus]

Hi all/Timo,

I was thinking about Thunderbirds ability to create Virtual folders 
allowing you to have many different views of your messages...


The downside though, is you only see these in Thunderbird.

I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual

But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client 
side...


For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird 
that allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, 
delete, rename, etc)?


Thanks,

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Best regards,

Charles

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Virtual Folders... could these be managed by a/the Client?

[Timo Sirainen]

Hi,

On 12.7.2013, at 16.21, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote:

 I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders:
 
 http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
 
 But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client 
 side...
 
 For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird that 
 allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, delete, 
 rename, etc)?

Currently Dovecot doesn't provide an IMAP level interface for managing these. 
There have been two proposed IMAP extensions for these, but nothing really came 
ouf ot those. It would be possible to add some new IMAP extension to configure 
the virtual folders, but the main reason why there isn't one is simply because 
I haven't thought anyone would bother to implement such spec.