On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Kirk Friggstad wrote:

> Davide, please don't put words in my mouth. I'm not planning on letting my
> users edit the mailproc.tab or anything else on my system at this point in
> time (please reference my previous message to the list regarding CTRL
> permissions on March 7th for my reasons) - I'm thinking about (for example)
> Altair's XMail-WAI, which allows "normal" users to edit (a subset of) their
> mailproc.tab, including the "redirect" command. I would venture that user
> access to the "redirect" command is a commonly desired feature for many
> XMail admins, as it offloads account maintenance to the user directly,
> rather than having to have a sysadmin take care of every trivial change to a
> mail account - again, also recall the previous discussion about
> non-administrative CTRL permissions.
>
> <kissing_ass>I'm a big fan of XMail - I've been using it in production since
> 0.59 or so, and I think it's among the best out there. It's just frustrating
> to see these (relatively) small issues that keep it from being THE
> best.</kissing_ass>

CTRL born to be a __thin__ layer to enable configuration tools to not mess
up with files directly, it handles locking correctly and does a pretty
nice job in keeping 'external' stuff confined out of the server. It is
__not__ ( and never will be ) THE configuration tool directly exposed. You
__have__ to write a layer between it and the CTRL protocol that
interfaces final users. So basically it's not the final user tool but
it's a kind-of-API to isolate configuration tools from the server.




- Davide


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