Re: Sieve counterpart of IMAP SPECIAL-USE (RFC 6154) ?

On 12/12/2011 12:10, Stephan Bosch wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Stephan,
> On an IMAP server mailing list I participated in a discussion about 
> the new the IMAP LIST Extension for Special-Use Mailboxes (RFC 6154). 
> In a nutshell, this extension allows identifying special-use mailboxes 
> to an IMAP client. Special-use can for instance be a junk, trash, 
> drafts, or archive folder. This way clients can easily identify such 
> folders and use them without explicit user configuration.
>
> At some point, the idea was raised to extend the Sieve language with 
> similar means. It could for instance be useful to have a special 
> version of the fileinto command that files the message into the 
> default folder for a particular special-use, e.g. `fileinto 
> :special_use "\\Junk";'. This can be particularly useful for global 
> scripts outside the user's control. Through metadata support it is 
> already possible to find out whether a folder has a special-use tag, 
> but conversely it is not possible to find out which folders have a 
> particular tag or what folder would be the default choice for that tag 
> (note that the notion of a default folder for a particular special-use 
> is missing in RFC 6154, which may be a problem).
>
> My question is: do you think it is useful to have a Sieve SPECIAL-USE 
> counterpart? And in what form?
This looks interesting to me. Your proposal above looks fine to me.

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