[imp] Downloading Whole Folders

[Nick Silberstein]

Quoting Rich Lafferty <rich@horde.org>:
> > > > I think this would be an excellent feature.  One thing I would
> ask
> > > > though, is the ability to have IMP prompt for your password
> before
> > > > allowing a bulk download of folder contents.
> > Security, really.
> 
> Against what? They can read every mail message by sitting at the
> machine they'd be downloading mail from.

If you step out for a sandwich, and leave your computer unsecured,
someone would normally need to hurriedly scan subject headers, or 
look through a random assortment of messages hurriedly.  

With a download whole folders option, someone could very quickly 
be able to download every mail you've ever received and saved, as 
well as sent, to media or a remote location and review it at their
leisure.  

That's the only difference; sure, they could read every mail from 
the computer they'd be downloading from, but they'd have to wait 
until you went on vacation for weeks (during which time you 
probably would have logged out of IMP ;).  I just think prompting 
for a password has utility in a shared computing environment like 
an office or student computer lab. It's pretty useless on someones
home computer, so making it a preference that could be disabled
probably makes sense.

Regards,
Nick

PS - I'd rather not beat this dead horse any longer; it would be easy
enough for me to modify the download code, if the general consensus 
among IMP developers is that the feature is not worth adding.

-- 
Nick Silberstein <nick@darktwin.net>