[Kolab-devel] IMAP ACL using a distributionlist

[Till Adam]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 22:59, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2005 22:55 schrieb Till Adam:

> > We figured it out, the acl needs to be added with a group: prefix, like
> > so:
> >
> > group:foo at domain.tld
>
> Yes, this is correct. This is due to namespace issues in the traditional
> unix user/group model. In Unix in contrast to Windows a user and a group
> may have the same name.
>
> E.g. you may have a user "foo" and a group "foo".
>
> Till: From a technical point of view in Kontact we don't allow for users
> and DLs to have the same name. So we don't allow the ambiguousness of Unix
> but limit ourself to unique names.
>
> --> the  burden of prefixing the ACL can be put on the Kolab client instead
> of the user.

Yeah, but how do we figure out whether the added email address represents a dl 
or a user, short of an LDAP query (which requires online server access)?

-- 
Till Adam -- till at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, adam at kde.org
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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