> On 8. Jun 2020, at 0.23, Scott A. Wozny <sawo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Dovecot Gurus, > > Setting up my first IMAP server and looking at the folder structure, I had a > mailbox I built on a Dovecot server and a mailbox configured by a hosting > provider next to each other in Thunderbird and I noticed that the special use > folders (Drafts, Trash and Sent) in my default-ish (I did set them to auto = > subscribe) Dovecot install make these folders appear parallel to my Inbox > folder where my hosting provider’s default configuration has them under the > Inbox hierarchically, along with all the folders I built for mail storage > over the use of the account. > > I did some googling, but I cannot find any guidance on which of these is > preferred, why, or how they could be controlled in Dovecot. The default > Dovecot config is ambiguous (IMHO) in that the mailbox config elements are > children to the inbox namespace (implying they go under Inbox in the > hierarchy) but their special_use parameter names are \Name which (if you use > a UNIX filesystem paradigm) implies they should be at the root of the > hierarchy and, therefore, parallel with Inbox, which is how Thunderbird shows > them, but I’m not sure if that’s a mail client decision and not anything to > do with the server configuration. > > Since I can’t access the config of my hosting provider, I can’t make any > comparisons, so I thought I’d ask on the list if there is any standard > guidance on server side configuration of special use folders in Dovecot or if > there’s no guidance available because I’m overthinking this. :)
It's totally up to you. What ever you prefer. Some people put special use folders into root, some put them under INBOX. That is why special_use exists so that server can tell clients which folders are for special use. Sami
