> here is a different approach for localized folder names, that I actually > discovered with another mail client called "Thunderbird". > > It's like this: The client is in another language than english, but still > uses the common english default names for those folders - "Drafts", > "Sent" > and "Trash". What it does then is to transparently translate the folder > names to the user - i.e. "Sent" is shown as "Gesendet", but actually the > IMAP folder's name still is "Sent". > > That makes this client perfectly coexist with any other client that maybe > expects the common folder names. > > What do you think? > > I'd like that because here I now have this problem: I found out about the > possibility to change the folder's names in folder preferences quite > late (actually yesterday), so that all ~60 users that already used their > account now have english folder names. If they change them in folder > preferences, or - more likely - if I change them with forced_prefs, they > will have both folders, "Sent" containing all previously sent messages, > and "Gesendet" containing all afterwards sent messages. That is not nice, > and I think the other way is really neat! That functionality is in 1.5.2 which isn't released yet. Your administrative problem is possible to solve. You could write a plugin to rename the folder for you and change the users' preferences. And you can always do it the hard way - manually. Sincerely, Fredrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
