Hello Bron, To answer your question: I don't know. Thanks for the use case. Best regards, -- Conrad Kleinespel conradk@xxxxxxxxxxx +33 6 23 82 42 79 On Mon, Jul 20, 2015, at 03:24 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > 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 ---- 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
