On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 16:26, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Alexander Brill wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:46, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Alexander Brill wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Is it possible to force subscribtion of a folder to another user by > >>>using the admin-user? I couldn't find any info about it in the docs and > >>>RFCs. > >> > >>If you use proxy authentication, then you can authenticate as the admin > >>but authorize as the user, and then subscribe them to the folder. > > > > > > Could you reference me to some rfc's or other docs on the subject? I > > tried the PROXYAUTH-command (comes with python imaplib), but it wasn't > > recognized as a command on my server. > > PROXYAUTH is a non standard command: > http://www.washington.edu/imap/listarch/2000/msg00215.html > (follow the thread). > > The right thing to do is use the authenticate method, unfortunately it's > not implemented in python imaplib. I don't understand why the imaplib > developer(s) implemented the nonstandard command instead of the standard > one. >
The newest python imaplib has authenticate implemented, finally. But I have to wrap it around TLS as well, so I'll have to look into that. There goes my quick and dirty hack to force people to subscribe to a folder. -- Alexander Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.project23.no PGP-key: http://www.nettstudio.no/firma/Library/PGP/alex_pgp/view
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