[imp] Imp 4.2 weirdness

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Konowalec <webadmin at ualberta.ca>:

> To which I responded "Ah HAH!".  So I looked in the permissions  
> setup, where I had added two permissions settings (max_recipients  
> and max_timelimit).  Sure enough in the Mail (imp) permission for  
> all authenticated users, all 4 checkboxes (show, read, edit, delete)  
> were unchecked.  I checked "read" and saved it and immediately  
> things went back to normal.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1)  Did this actually solve the problem or am I going to piss off my  
> users again when I put it back into production tomorrow morning?

You may piss them off, but not because of this. :)

> 2)  Why would users be able to work normally for so long before  
> horde decided it wanted to enforce the permissions?  Should they not  
> have been failing right from the get-go?

Had you added the permissions before, did you add it at some point  
after launch? When you added the max_* permissions the parent  
permission would be autocreated; that's when you would have had trouble.

> 3)  What are all the various permissions for (show, read, edit,  
> delete)?  Which ones should be set?

For an application, the only relevant ones are show and read. Show  
means you can see that the application is installed; read means you  
can use it.

-chuck