On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, James A. Pattie wrote: > I've searched the archives and have not found any e-mails talking about > adding the XSERVERINFO extension which is needed to make mozilla mail > show the "permissions" button when viewing a folders properties. > Apparently if the imap server supports the XSERVERINFO extension and > returned a url for the MANAGEACCOUNTURL argument they then provide the > button which justs opens a browser window and surfs to the specified url > so that you can then share the folder, etc.
So, uh, why can't the clients just implement the standardized ACL extention and take care of manging the folders that way? Having a website URL to manage the folder ACLs sounds like a hideous hack. > I'm looking to add the XSERVERINFO extension to cyrus imap and was > wondering if anyone else has worked on this or has any desire to see > this feature added. I'm planning on adding it like the X-NETSCAPE > extension was done so that the user compiling cyrus imap has to > explicitly enable it. As it is the X-NETSCAPE hack is pretty ugly. Its basicly only there so that older netscape IMAP clients won't claim that the server is *defective* when it doesn't advertise a *nonstandard* extention. For example, see the following urls: http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/current/msg00234.html http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/current/msg00235.html With no specifications to go on, I'm really hesitant to even begin to think about adding another such non-standard extention. If clients really think there is a demand for this, I encourage them to pursue such extentions through the IETF. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
