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

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 03 April 2013 16:23 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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Dave:

>> Alexey:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Russ
>> 
>> 
>> 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.

Russ

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