[dev] localization of special mailbox folders

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Fri Sep 26 16:47:47 UTC 2008


Zitat von PENZ Robert <ROBERT.PENZ at TIROL.GV.AT>:

> Hi!
>
>> We have always been against such a feature since users should not see
>> different folder names in different clients. But this has been
>> requested often recently, so we might get convinced.
>
> I can understand your reluctance for implementing such a feature.  
> Would our IMAP Mail System only be used with Horde, we could simply  
> translate the mail folder names. But when you connect to IMAP for  
> example via Thunderbird, Thunderbird expects the names in English.  
> Only then can Thunderbird mark the folders with special icons and  
> translate them on the GUI to eg. German. If Thunderbird fails to  
> recognize the sent mail folder, it is not able to store any sent  
> mail. The same is true for drafts.
>
> We know there are howtos on the net on how to configure Thunderbird  
> correctly, but this is not an option. Our clients are Tyrolean  
> pupils who we do not want to burden with a complex configuration.

Well, you can always add an RFE on bugs.horde.org, and we can discuss  
this there.

Jan.

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