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This section discusses Oracle Email shared folders.
This appendix contains the following topics:
User folders can be shared with other users, distribution lists, or with everyone in a user's domain using access control lists (ACLs). Oracle Email supports ACLs defined in RFC 2086.
RFC 2086 defines the following namespaces:
In Oracle Email, folders within another user's namespaces are referred to as shared folders, and folders within shared namespaces are referred to as public folders.
If a folder is shared with everyone in a domain, it is called a public folder. Otherwise, if the folder is shared with one or more users or distribution lists, it is called a shared folder.
For IMAP, Oracle Email uses the following prefixes for shared and public folders:
#Shared/
: All shared folders accessible to the user appear under this namespace in the folder listing#Public/
:All the public folders appear under this namespace in the folder listing
ACLs are used to share folders with other identifiers in the Oracle Email system. Oracle Email identifiers are listed in Table A-1.
Folders cannot be shared across domains. To share folders within a domain, you must have either domain or system administrator privileges.
The following domain rights can be granted:
Oracle Email always grants lookup
rights with other rights. All rights are grouped with lookup
privileges. None of the other rights are tied together.
The following rules apply to folders:
For example, consider a user who is a member of group G1
and list L1
, which been granted the following rights:
identifier rights ========== ======= G1 li L1 lrs
In this case the user's rights are a union of li
and lrs
, or lrsi
, as derived from membership in group G1
and list L1
, respectively.
User level rights take precedence over other rights. For example, if a user has lr
rights at the user level, then the applicable rights are lr
.
You must have system or domain privileges to create public folders. Public folders are first created in an administrator's private namespace. To make the folders public, you must give rights to the domain identifier.
Once a public folder is created, it can be administered by other administrators without specifying any rights. Public folders must be created with a unique name because they do not have a user name prefix. For example, if administrator A1
creates a public folder called public1
, then administrator A2
cannot create a public folder with the same name.
Public folders count towards the owner's e-mail quota.
Administrators can grant more rights to other identifiers. For example, a user can be granted insert
(i
) rights to add messages to a public folder. This folder appears twice in the user's folder listing: as a public folder and as a shared folder.