[Mailadmin-devel] Re: Freeze on 1.5.x, call for features on 2.0

[Chris B. <ch...@hu...>]

At 06:38 PM 3/29/04, Chris Bowlby wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>  Ok, now that 1.5.2 is out the door, I'd like to retire that package so 
> we can work on a newer version that is much more flexible, and can be 
> configured fairly easily. 1.5.x I'd like to leave as a bug fix only 
> version with new versions going into a 2.x version. This is what I'd like 
> to have as part of my wish list:
>
>- Change to a session based platform, rather then cookie based. Cookie 
>usage is outdated when dealing with PHP and sessions are much easier to 
>maintain.
>- A flow based means to manage ACL controls on folders, for both 
>cyrus+sasl and cyrus2+sasl2 based systems. James started some work on this 
>area based on older work that I had in place, but we both felt 1.5.x based 
>ACL controls were going to be somewhat limited anyway.
>- fully PHP based, remove as much of the perl code as possible. I don't 
>yet know if this will be possible, but I'd like to remove some of the 
>issues we've been having with SUID based scripts.
>- I new interface, allowing administrators to move around the system a 
>little easier.
>- Give the user (non-admin accounts) more control over their own mailboxes....
>- Change in the file structure framework, so that we can simplify some 
>screens a little more.
>
>  This is a small wish list, but it's also a set of ideas I've been 
> thinking about for the last year or so, anyone have any additional items 
> to add?


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