dovecot-metadata-plugin software package provides Experimental IMAP METADATA Extension for Dovecot, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install dovecot-metadata-plugin
dovecot-metadata-plugin is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dovecot-metadata-plugin package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dovecot-metadata-plugin *
You will get with dovecot-metadata-plugin package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | |
| Package | dovecot-metadata-plugin |
| Version | 14+20131027-0ubuntu2 |
| Description | Experimental IMAP METADATA Extension for Dovecot |
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