Hi Martin, didn't expect to read from you, thought you were on vacation ;)
> > As an underlying principal, I think it is reasonable for an admin to > > have control over what a client can store on the server. > > Hmm,... I fail to understand this. How is folder METADATA different from > foldernames or messages. For neither folder names nor messages we limit the > allowed contents/names beyond what is required by the standard or > unfortunate side effects of the implementation. > > I am considering a simple solution which means that the mailbox acl (per > folder) controls the access to the contents and the metadata of the folder. > I don't want to restrict the contents of either a folder or the meta data. > The resources used for both shall be accounted for when doing the quota > calculations. > > How can you imagine abuse which needs to be prevented? I think Ken worries about annotations that are used to control server behavior. Currently e.g. squatter and cyr_expire can be controlled through annotations. In some environments it may make sense to limit access to these kind of knobs, at least for some users. Kind regards, Gerd
