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Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 30.10.2007, at 1.16, Mark Crispin wrote:
>
>> (4) Ideas that never really got off the ground for various reasons  
>> and are likely to fade into obscurity (sorry...):
>>
>> rfc4314.txt    ACL
>> rfc2087.txt    QUOTA
>
> My list would look pretty much the same, except for these. A lot of  
> people want shared mailboxes and besides administrator configuring  
> them manually ACL is the only possibility. Clients don't currently  
> have much support for it, but it doesn't really need support from  
> normal clients. Just having some special "ACL (web)client" is enough.  
> I hoped to have implemented ACL for my server this summer, but looks  
> like it didn't happen.
>
> I think quota is already pretty widely supported by clients, although  
> in very limited form. If people have quota, they really want to know  
> how much they have left (when they've reached the limit once..).  
> Quota root is a pretty weird concept though and I don't think clients  
> handle multiple ones well. Maybe QUOTA2 extension could do a better  
> job with those.

Indeed. Many clients actually require both of one of these extensions. 
Thunderbird would use both even if they are not advertised (yes, 
definitely a bug).



