From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: A few basic nnimap problems
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:36:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739sqf5tt.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrq2yxff.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
[...]
> One question I can't find the RFC answer to right now: Is it possible for
> the capabilities to change depending on the logged in user?
Yes, absolutely. This is routine: many servers only offer LOGIN and PLAIN to
users who have an SSL or TLS secured connection. Since STARTTLS is a state
change in a running connection this is already legal.
> Maybe some users are allowed to use server resource intensive commands like
> sorting and threading while others are not?
This would also be ... not against the rules, given that other protocol state
changes can trigger the same thing.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 17:03 Bjørn Mork
2010-09-30 17:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 18:04 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-30 18:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 20:08 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-30 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 11:17 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-10-01 12:36 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2010-10-01 17:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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