https://sourceforge.net/p/spamato/dev/10/2006-06-14T10:02:57ZRecent changes to 10: Support for multiple users/accounts2006-06-14T10:02:57Z2006-06-14T10:02:57ZKeno Albrechthttps://sourceforge.net/u/kemil/https://sourceforge.net44939d66d51aafff28d3bc1155a2a61cd8e31411

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Currently, Spamato is restricted to a single user. All<br /> messages are handled as if they have been sent to a<br /> single user or account. Even the Spamatoxy, that allows<br /> access even from several users, "shares" one instance<br /> of Spamato. This is only sub-optimal as users (and<br /> event different accounts of one user) might differ<br /> significantly from each other.</p> <p>To allow different users to use a single Spamato<br /> instance, we have to enable the plugin system to<br /> support multiple users. All plugins must access their<br /> data from a new "user-aware session object".<br /> Additionally, plugins must take into account this new<br /> behavior---they, cannot store global variables or state<br /> information outside the session object.</p> <p>Here are some additional ideas just to log them for<br /> future consideration:</p> <p>Multi-user/account support should be optional. For<br /> easier handling, a user should also be able to choose<br /> the old way. That is, for instance, if accounts aren't<br /> that different, the user might want to have a single<br /> session or rather to share knowledge among account<br /> session as before. This would also ease administration<br /> if we want to run a Spamatoxy for several users with<br /> the same settings.</p> <p>There will be several problems to be solved: For<br /> instance: How to configure such a system? Using the<br /> web_config with several users, we might have to add a<br /> 'login' since users shouldn't be able to change other<br /> users' settings. How to distinguish between multiple<br /> users and multiple accounts for a single user? How to<br /> share sessions/data between users/accounts? And how to<br /> configure all this?</p> <p>To allow all this, it would also be necessary to update<br /> the add-ons. A user with multiple accounts using<br /> Thunderbird or Outlook should be able to modify its<br /> settings for different accounts. But it shouldn't be<br /> more difficult than with one account.</p> <p>We can probably have a special implementation for<br /> multiple users and multiple accounts for a single user.<br /> We might also want to have different implementations<br /> for the Spamatoxy (which might be used by several<br /> users) and the other add-ons (S4O, S4T, S4M). We might<br /> even end up with an integration version for mail servers.</p></div>