Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Christian Lange wrote: > >> Different clients can normally have different sets of folder >> subscriptions, would that not do what you want? > > If you use different devices, e.g. a mobile phone or PDA and Outlook or > Thunderbird, you get in troubles, because both may have a very specific > view on the folders on IMAP, but the user wants to have all sent mails > in one folder, not to mention all deleted mail. > > This goes on, if you want to do server-side stuff, e.g. clean the > trash-folder now and then etc. Even the trash folder is _not_ fixed by > standard. Elder versions of Mozilla and Outlook used localized names for > their folders, so even the native language effected the names. > > The alias-feature alone will not overcome the problems, because the > admin (or user) still needs to configure the aliases for a specific set > of mail clients. >
I am aware of that, but I don't see how that is related to Daniel's second suggestion to show a different set of folders to different clients based on client ID or different login names if that is not possible. - Christian
