> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Brewin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 September 2003 11:24 > To: James Developers List (E-mail); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: User Attributes > > > Jason Webb wrote: > > However, I need to store attributes on the user for IMAP to work > > properly. These are two lists: > > 1) The list of current folders > > 2) The list of subscribed folders > > > > As there is no place to store this information, I propose to add > > attributes to the User object to allow me to persist this > information > > to a store. I plan to implement this code (and thus the > IMAP server) > > on the v3 code. > > > Any comments? > > Jason, > > Are you proposing to add the attributes you require or a > generic mechanism similar to the one used for MailAttributes? Completely generic, and similar to the one in MailAttributes. The only problem I'm wrestling with at the moment is the DB implementation as there are 2 implementations of user in the db. The Avalon store is trivial :) > > Having the ability to associate arbitary name/value pairs > would be great. fetchmail needs this to be able to associate > users with their external message store accounts. I'm sure > there are many other potential uses too. I need it for IMAP mailboxes etc. so our usages would probably be similar. I'm very busy at work, but this slackens off I will finish the User attributes work. > > -- Steve > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
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