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Re: Missing requirement in draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch? (was Re: New Version Notification - draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch-05.txt)

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 03 April 2013 16:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: Missing requirement in draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch? (was Re: New Version Notification - draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch-05.txt)
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On 4/3/2013 9:23 AM, Russ Housley wrote:
>>> Of course we want to be able to delete spam, but this is being used
>>> to access an archive, so only the administrator should be able to
>>> delete the spam.
...
>>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27 Mar 2013, at 20:31, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> While looking at it, I noticed we don't explicitly say that this
>>>>> IMAP interface MUST NOT allow messages in the archive to be
>>>>> deleted
>>>>
>>>> I would actually allow administrative users to delete messages
>>>> (e.g. spam), but such actions should be recorded in logs. Other
>>>> users shouldn't be allowed to do that.
>>
>> I'm  confused Russ.  Isn't that exactly what Alexey recommends, here?
>
> The administrator does not have to use the IMAP interface.  They could use a different interface.


Your previous note specified /who/ should have the capability; this 
matches what Alexey said.

Your note now refers to /how/ and appears to mean that you believe they 
should not be allowed to exercise that capability via IMAP.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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