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Amos Gouaux <amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu> writes:

> sj> As ACL semantics tend to be defined in almost as many ways as there
> sj> are implementations, I'm not sure a new backend function for editing
> sj> ACLs would be a better solution -- it would be hard to make it generic
> sj> enough to accomodate all ACLs future backends might implement, and
> sj> making it match the IMAP semantics seem as much as a workaround as
> sj> creating commands which only work for one backend.
> 
> Hopefully this will improve.  There is an IETF committee on the IMAP
> extensions, which includes quotas and ACLs.  So hopefully we can
> eventually get some consistency here.

I'm not sure we should hold our breaths on that, considering the ACL
rfc is 3 years old and there haven't been any updated drafts. ;-)

> I'm also hoping that they separate folder ACLs from message ACLs, so
> that you can grant permission to delete messages in a folder, but
> not the folder itself--D'OH!  ;-)

Let's hope. ACLs pertaining to groups of users would be nice, too.