[KLUG Members] FYI: [users-groupware] New version of Mozilla Calendar]

[Adam Williams]

>>assume that you could create any bulletin boards, etc, as 
>>shared folders in another IMAP server, as long as it 
>>supports an ACL, to allow administration to limit access. 
>There is the rub!  ACL support.  Certainly not present in UofW IMAP (the
>"default" IMAP server) or Courier (last I checked).  UofW, Courier and Cyrus
>make up the big three of the open source IMAP universe.  They're might be some
>othe smaller ones floating about that do this.  Also the mbox (/var/spool/mail)
>mechanism really just can't handle multiple users in the same folder,  so one
>basically has to build a beckend to truly support shared folders.  That is no
>small task, in fact, it is bigger than a large task.  Ever told a user that
>their mail is gone?  Fortunately the Cyrus backend (at least parts of it) is
>almost as old as I am,  rather like sendmail;  so finding bugs usually requires
>very exotic conditions.

FYI; The kronolith team commited shared calendar patches to their CVS head 
yesterday.  I'm pulling it down and I'll let ya'll know what it looks 
like.  Includes ACLs, etc... at least at first glance.

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