Re: Dovecot 1.2 virtual mailboxes

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> BTW, for people using Dovecot: version 1.2 (still in beta) has a new
>> "virtual mailbox" extension which looks pretty interesting for this
>> kind of stuff:
>>
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
>
> Looks quite similar to kiboze groups, right?

It seems so. I didn't try it yet, though.

> I imagine that I could benefit from that feature by creating virtual
> groups for my most important contacts, but I guess it would conflict
> with things like `gcc-self', i.e. when I reply to a mail in a virtual
> group I want to gcc the original group, not the virtual one.
>
> But probably the registry could jump in here (at least if I've read the
> message in the original group before and omit virtual groups from
> registration).

Yes, I guess this could be scripted somehow, since the virtual groups
are in their own namespace anyway. But indeed, the registry would have
to see the original message in the original group beforehand. I already
struggled with that problem with nnmairix, and don't yet know how to
solve that efficiently, especially since I'm splitting with procmail on
the server and not with Gnus.

-David