Re: [Nolug] meeting tomorrow

>From an organizational standpoint, there are a lot of uses for IMAP
ACLs, e.g., delegation and shared folders.

Hmm, a real-world example..

We do something internally that a lot of other companies do: We have a
mailbox that accepts system mail from servers we manage. So how do share
access to the mailbox? We all know the credentials. No big deal, right?
That's how you do it. Wrong! Really, you should never have shared
credentials for anything. That's just bad practice. It only seems like
it's no big deal because people are used to doing it that way. The RIGHT
WAY is to give appropriate access to each individual user, and this is
best done using ACLs.

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-ray wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> 
>> Courier-IMAP supports the IMAP ACL extension, but.. Configuration is a
>> pain. It's done via a configuration file. That's kind of dumb really.
>> Groupware solutions such as Exchange do this much better. You just click
>> a Folder and assign rights to it..
> 
> MSLover.  This is a Linux list.  You can't say that Exchange is
> *better*. :)
> 
> We use dovecot, but i haven't messed with ACLs.  What application do you
> need ACLs for?  We use mbox and have almost a million mbox files spread
> across 10 filesystem.  We looked at Maildir but with so many mailboxes i
> think the filesystem overhead would kill us... and the backup server
> would just curl up and die haha.
> 
> ray
> 
> 
> 
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