OK. Thanks a lot for your help :) -- Conrad Kleinespel conradk@xxxxxxxxxxx +33 6 23 82 42 79 On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, at 04:08 PM, Nic Bernstein wrote: > On 07/19/2015 06:21 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote: > > my question was meant to ask why we even need to separate > > things into "user/..." and "netnews/..." and "shared/..." instead of > > just handling everything through the ACL extension (which should allow > > to have shared mailboxes by given read only access, right?). > > > > I understand that we have those abstractions in place but I don't yet > > understand why we need those abstractions. > > > > For instance, why couldn't we put everything in the same namespace: > > root > > comp.mail.imap > > fred > > > > and when a user "fred" wants access to the mailbox, just request "fred" > > instead of "user.fred" ? > > Ah, sorry, that wasn't quite clear to me. Historical artifact is my > assumption, and the fact that for several years, at CMU, the > pre-existing bboard system (net news-like discussion boards) was > integrated into Cyrus. Separate namespaces for users vs shared folders > vs netnews, etc. makes sense to some; common namespace makes sense to > others. Changing from the former to the latter could be a real mess, > however. > > Cyrus history discussion here: > http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_History > > Cheers, > -nic > > -- > Nic Bernstein nic@xxxxxxxxxxx > Onlight llc. www.onlight.com > 219 N. Milwaukee St., Ste. 2A v. 414.272.4477 > Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 f. 414.290.0335 > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
