CMU's graffiti

[Ken Murchison]

Jeffrey T Eaton wrote:

>>CMU has a tree called graffiti in which anyone can create new bboard
>>mailboxes.  How is this implemented?  I see instructions for creating
>>with Mulberry and cyradm, and it implies the C acl, but that would
>>also allow anyone to delete mailboxes.  Or is that how it works?
> 
> 
> We set:
> 
> deleteright: a
> 
> in imapd.conf, and give the top level graffiti the acl:
> 
> anyone lrscp


Note that using 'a' as the delete right is non-standard (although there 
is no one 'single' standard, since both 'c' and 'd' are seen in the 
wild), and will cause compatibility issues when upgraded ACL code (RFC 
2086bis) is deployed.


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