310958 - Thunderbird: IMAP4 ACL2 support

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 378047

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[valli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929

In the next future the IMAP4 ACL (RFC2086)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2086.html
will be replaced by
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-imapext-2086upd-08.txt

See 'Goals and Milestones' in
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/imapext-charter.html

Currently Thunderbird only supports the ACL from RFC 2086. 
Even though, there are IMAP servers out there which already supports
ACL2 (courier).

A problem arises if a folder exists on the server with
the following (new) ACL2-flags.
t,w is set
x is not set

=> I should be able to delete messages in this folder, but
   I can't delete the folder itself

Thunderbird currently deactivate the 'delete'-button, so
deleting of messages is not possible.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Karol Krasowski]

This is definitely the case. When ACL2 'x' flag is not set it should be possible to remove messages from a folder but it should not be possible to the folder itself.

Comment 2

[valli]

See also:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4314.html