Why are user inboxes called "user.some-user" ?

[Conrad Kleinespel]

OK. Thanks a lot for your help :)

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Conrad Kleinespel
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, at 04:08 PM, Nic Bernstein wrote:
> On 07/19/2015 06:21 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > my question was meant to ask why we even need to separate
> > things into "user/..." and "netnews/..." and "shared/..." instead of
> > just handling everything through the ACL extension (which should allow
> > to have shared mailboxes by given read only access, right?).
> >
> > I understand that we have those abstractions in place but I don't yet
> > understand why we need those abstractions.
> >
> > For instance, why couldn't we put everything in the same namespace:
> >      root
> >          comp.mail.imap
> >          fred
> >
> > and when a user "fred" wants access to the mailbox, just request "fred"
> > instead of "user.fred" ?
> 
> Ah, sorry, that wasn't quite clear to me.  Historical artifact is my 
> assumption, and the fact that for several years, at CMU, the 
> pre-existing bboard system (net news-like discussion boards) was 
> integrated into Cyrus.  Separate namespaces for users vs shared folders 
> vs netnews, etc. makes sense to some; common namespace makes sense to 
> others.  Changing from the former to the latter could be a real mess, 
> however.
> 
> Cyrus history discussion here:
>      http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_History
> 
> Cheers,
>      -nic
> 
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