On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, at 04:21, Conrad Kleinespel wrote: > However, 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" ? How you get a listing of all the actual users on a server without getting a bunch of other noise? Namespacing is good. I have no problem with prefixing user mailboxes with 'user'. It's incredibly self-documenting. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- 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
