[PATCH/FEATURE] Per-user XLIST support for cyrus-imapd

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2013-04-30 09:20, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Hi Bron,
> 
> On Tuesday, 30. April 2013 08:53:24 Bron Gondwana wrote:
>> Hi - have you looked at all at the special-use support in mainline 
>> Cyrus?
>> 
>> The xlist-* behaviour is planned to be removed, in favour of using 
>> the RFC
>> 6154 mandated annotation.
>> 
>> The implementation in git at the moment doesn't quite match the 
>> standard,
>> because I wrote it before the RFC was released, but I have a branch 
>> which
>> makes it fully compatible.  I wrote to this list just the other day 
>> asking
>> about it!
> 
> Eduardo is innocent, we (=Intra2net) needed support for this :)
> We didn't upgrade to 2.4.x yet, so we needed to develop
> this for 2.3.16 anyway.
> 
> As far as I understood it, Outlook 2013 does not implement the RFC 
> properly.
> 

I suppose you would then use the Cyrus IMAP internal SPECIAL-USE folder 
flags storage(?) to represent a response to X-LIST(?) rather than 
supplying additional configuration that can quickly get out-of-sync with 
other clients (that do support SPECIAL-USE?) as well as across folders.

I haven't actually looked at anything to back up this rambling with, 
tell me if it makes sense ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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