[imp] Admin can't read users email

Michael Menge michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Tue Apr 21 17:37:17 UTC 2009


Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

>
> Quoting Pete Masse <pete at chemistry.montana.edu>:
>
>> It seems to me that the admin account has the ability to read all  
>> of the user's email from his/her login screen.  At least that's the  
>> way I thought I saw it at one time.  If this is true and I'm not  
>> mistaken, how is this made possible?
>
> This is not something that is provided by Horde/IMP as distributed.  
> Though I admit to seeing similar behavior with some big web  
> providers via the control panel software they use.  
> Hostdepartment.com comes to mind...

If the IMAP-Server supports acls the admin may be able to read the
users mails. But thats independend of the mail-client.

>
> Thanks,
> mike
>
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