[Kolab-devel] How to call anonymous imap folders (was: Maintainer - Kolab wiki)

[Alain Spineux]

On Nov 29, 2007 7:34 PM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007 15:05, Richard Bos wrote:
> > But why did you change "create/modify/delete shared folders"
> > to "create/modify/delete (global) shared folders". It's a bit confusion:
> > to what does global refer to? Are the folders now shared also by other
> > domains? I would say shared is sufficient, adding global to it, makes it
> > just confusion and inconsistent, isn't it?
>
> We need to find a better word for the anonymous folders that a Cyrus IMAPD
> can provide. The problem with the term "shared" is confusion, as any folder
> can be "shared" by just setting the right access permissions.

public folder ?

>
> Because from the organisation view on the whole solution it is much better if
> regular imap accounts are used (like in Kolab users, group and resource
> accounts) to archieve "shared" folders. It means there is always a user
> that is responsible for a folders.
>
> Many users think "shared" folders and thus many admins do this, too
> and they match with the wrong feature. They would often want a group account.
>
> So how to we call the Cyrus IMAP "shared" folders in the web-admin to make a
> clear distinction and avoid the wrong "match" when admins look for a
> solution? We have tried a bit and I think
>
> "anonymous server folders" could be the one.
>
> Note that you can send emails to those folders under some circumstances,
> so the differences to a real account mainly is that there is no account to log
> in for them and that clients might handle this differently and sometimes
> display the IMAP namespace with "user" and "shared".
>
> "global" came from the idea that the only use cases are when there really
> should be a folder that all user see and thus the ability to mainly use "all"
> in the permissions. However this is also easily done by a group account
> folder, so we do not need this usecase.
>
> What about
> "accountless folders"?
>
> "folders without account"?
>
> "stray folders"
>
> Bernhard
>
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