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ACL settings editing for shared mailboxes

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1. to develop enhancement feature: mailbox sharing skill:backend skill:frontend
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If an IMAP server supports ACLs, there might be users who have permission a on a shared mailbox, or users want to share a mailbox with other users on the same IMAP server.

Describe the solution you'd like

Create an API that allows adding and removing ACL permissions on mailboxes and create a frontend dialogue to modify these ACL permissions on a per- mailbox basis.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We could also limit these options to users in the admin group and allow these settings to be modified via occ commands - althougt there is a case to be made that the primary control for ACLs being available to a user should be on the IMAP server itself as global ACLs, and should not be in the purview of the Mail app.

Additional context

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/7057

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the related issue 7057 and the existing IMAP and mailbox-management paths. The requested work spans an ACL-management API and a per-mailbox frontend dialog; done means users can add and remove ACL permissions through both parts of the Mail app.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, php
Domain
api, backend, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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