RFC6154 and upgrade to Cyrus 2.5

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 2015-10-14 14:32, Wolfgang Breyha wrote:
> Marco wrote on 09/10/15 08:58:
>> Hello,
>>
>>    on Cyrus 2.4 I see extenstion for xlist folder flags. Folders and
>> flags must be configured on imapd.conf. Great, it works! Flags are
>> magically applied to all folders!
>>
>> If I upgrade to Cyrus 2.5 or upper, what does it happen? I see that
>> Cyrus 2.5 also support "create special use", but I can't see no more
>> xlist-* configs. It seems that starting from Cyrus>=2.5 only client
>> can set flags during CREATE. But what does it happen to previously
>> Cyrus2.4 folder-flag associations?
>
> With a little help from Bron I came to the following solution...
>
> 2.5 does not have xlist- and the only way to "migrate" it is to set it as
> annotation to every mailbox.
>
> It is possible to set it by connecting to the backend/server as admin user
> authorized as the individual user and push eg.
> . SETANNOTATION INBOX.Trash "/specialuse" ("value.priv" "\Trash")
> commands. Maybe I get this to work over my 2.4 frontends as well.
>
> On 2.5 the new SETMETADATA is available as well...
> . SETMETADATA INBOX.Sent ("/private/specialuse" "Sent")

If the xlist folder flags worked in 2.4, why were they removed in 2.5?

//per