RFC6154 and upgrade to Cyrus 2.5

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Mon Oct 19 17:32:27 EDT 2015


On 2015-10-18 12:09, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015, at 03:25, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>> 
>> On 2015-10-16 15:00, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>>> --On 16. Oktober 2015 14:56:32 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark 
>>> <peo at intersonic.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If the xlist folder flags worked in 2.4, why were they removed
>>>> in 2.5?
>>> 
>>> Because XLIST was a hack that was first introduced and then
>>> deprecated by Google. Leave it to Microsoft to rely on hacks.
>> 
>> OK, I can understand that. But it is still the way you redirect
>> your OL users to have their sent mail etc ending up in the right
>> place.
>> 
>> This looks like a show stopper for for us to go to 2.5 then.
> 
> The XLIST command still works fine, and gets the special use flags
> (including magic \Inbox for XLIST but not list-return-specialuse) -
> the only change is that instead of hard-coding the names for everyone
> on the server, you use the specialuse annotation from the RFC to set
> which folders have which special-use, allowing users with different
> language folders on the same server.
> 
> It does mean that your provisioning system needs to support creating
> with a use, like this:
> 
> TAG CREATE INBOX.Trash (USE (\Trash))
> 
> You could definitely create a case for improving the tooling around
> that, and maybe even adding support to the autocreate options.  I
> think we'd be happy to backport that to 2.5.

"create a case" as in enter a Bugzilla request? I wish we could support
in development but that would be more than we can master.

Thank you and sorry for not getting the point properly...

//per


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