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# Cyrus IMAP

# cvt_xlist_specialuse

Convert legacy xlist-flag settings to user special-use annotations.

## Synopsis

    cvt_xlist_specialuse [OPTIONS] mailbox...

## Description

cvt_xlist_specialuse is a tool for converting xlist-flag settings from imapd.conf(5) to user special-use annotations.

## Options

`-C` `config-file`

  Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5).

`-v```

  Produce verbose output

## Examples

    cvt_xlist_specialuse user.*

> Set special-use annotations for all users (unixhierarchysep: off)

    cvt_xlist_specialuse user/*

> Set special-use annotations for all users (unixhierarchysep: on)

## History

The xlist-flag settings existed for a while in Cyrus IMAP 2.4, for setting special-use style flags for particular folder names (on a server-wide basis). This was deprecated at some point with the introduction of RFC 6154.

The cvt_xlist_specialuse tool was introduced in Cyrus IMAP 3.0 to aid administrators in upgrading from older deployments where xlist-flag settings had been in use.

## Files

## See Also

imapd.conf(5)