[Kolab-devel] Is IMAP still the right choice?

[Georg C. F. Greve]

On Wednesday 30 November 2011 12.32:22 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> I think there may be one exception,  Exchange 2010 EWS ;-)

Okay, I stand corrected. ;)

Although I *could* try to weasel out saying "I said _virtually_ every..." ;)


> I can give you the most complex LDAP ACL to use in a Cyrus IMAP ACE and
> it'll all be dandy to the user. It's called dynamic groups.

That is of course true.

But then the difference to the user of having the admin set up a group to which 
then objects can be assigned, or doing that assignment through the location in 
which you store something, e.g. "Calendar/WorkingGroup" is one of usability 
more than efficiency.

And unless you wanted to store the entire groupware payload in LDAP, which I 
am sure noone is advocating, it would mean we'd then have to implement our own 
ACL control mechanism based on that.

The chance of us making a mistake there that does not get detected quickly 
enough seems much higher than the chance of such a mistake in Cyrus having 
gone undetected for a very long time.

So using the IMAP folder concept for this allows us to rely upon the ACL 
control of Cyrus, which is a good thing, imho.

Best regards,
Georg


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