Extend IMAP idea (was: Handling of private/confidential groupware objects)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Joon,

first thanks for the suggestion!

Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 14:07 schrieb Joon Radley:
> The introduction of two modifications to the IMAP4 and ACL standards will
> resolve the problem. 

Doing a modification of IMAP and its ACL extension 
is a major undertaking, of course, 
only recommendable to be done if there is no other good way.

> Introduce a /private flag to the APPEND command and a 
> p(I think this is not taken) to the ACL extension to manage access to
> messages flagged as private.

RFC4314 (proposed standard) has
  p - post (send mail to submission address for mailbox,
         not enforced by IMAP4 itself)

> The Kolab project can introduce a draft for this. It is simple and should
> not be a major exercise to implement (might be wrong). As this is a growing
> issue it will be a benefit to the whole IMAP4 community.

Considering the implementation, it is the current estimation of my developers, 
that it would be a major effort to add this to Cyrus Imapd.
As far as I have understood, the affected code would be all over the place
which would require a long stabilisation period in case the implementation 
is made.

Bernhard