Tickets :: Comment on [#56] IMP maintenance should apply to a configurable folder set.

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Comment	>> I've just gotten some more time delegated at work to assist, which I > >> hope can be of maximum effectiveness through your team's support, > >> suggestions, and guidance. > > > > If you're willing to update the patches a bit that could be great. I > agree with you that resolving this is worthwhile, it being one of the > oldest tickets around, plus the bounty, etc. > > > > So, I just took another look at the patches myself, perhaps feeling a > bit clearer. I think one of your primary issues can be resolved with > a bit of info about the prefs system: there are no hooks on special > preferences because they are supposed to define interface elements > and they don't have values. > > > > You should define an implicit preference that actually holds the > value/s you want to store, and leave the special pref to define the > UI for it. I know that's not completely intuitive and it needs to be > documented, but let's stick to the topic. :) So after that hooks > should work fine on the implicit pref. > > > > That means that I think the framework patch can go away entirely. If > there are issues about confirming we should address those separately > but that doesn't apply to solving the issue of this ticket so let's > simplify and leave it out. > > > > The Horde patch is just for hooks.php.dist so that's fine. > > > > In the IMP patch, I'd like to remove the allow_user_confirm_maint bit > from the scope of this ticket, if it's still needed. > disable_purge_folders should be enforceable by locking the > preference. I can see the last config setting > (max_days_purge_folders) since that's not easily representable with a > locked preference. But if you don't need it, I'd be inclined to let > it go. > > > > I can look more closely at the rest of the IMP patch if you agree > with the above and can work on revising the patches accordingly. > > > > Michael, if we envision this ticket for now as only providing > configurability for which folders are purged, was there anything else > that concerned with just the IMP portion of the patch?
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