From: Scott Balmos (no email)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 16:39:22 EDT
<quote who="Victor Duchovni">
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:06:55PM -0400, Scott Balmos wrote:
>
>> I tend to agree. However I have yet to find an IMAP client that presents
>> direct IMAP appending to the user in an easy manner, at least in recent
>> memory. As far as I remember, when browsing an IMAP shared folder,
>> Outlook
>> / OE, Thunderbird, Apple Mail.app, etc etc etc all assume you are
>> working
>> with a normal email, going to an email address. They present no options
>> for "sending" via IMAP append. This is probably going OT, into MUA
>> discussion land, but can you give examples of such MUAs that provide
>> this
>> functionality correctly?
>>
>
> Just refile the message into the shared folder. Works for all IMAP
> clients I have seen.
>
Uhhh, yes that does work... That would be unacceptable to general users,
though. That would essentially involve
1) Writing the message
2) Saving to a temporary spot in the mail program (the Drafts folder?)
3) Moving that saved message from Drafts into the appropriate folder
and would also negate other email distribution functionality, such as
replying both to the shared folder and users (like is common on this list)
in one operation.
The point is I'm trying to treat the shared folder submission point as
normal email addresses. I understand the security implications that you
are suggesting, and that what's being requested is essentially an ugly
hack. The same thing was said about my policy server two months ago when I
asked about it, yet it's working fine and sufficiently securely. This is
also why I know this will probably remain an internal change that is not
used in the open, which I'm okay with.
--Scott
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