On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Fabrice Akhen wrote:
> Hi we are using cyrus imapd 2.0.6 (with openldap and pam_ldap for auth).
>
> We would to have "." and "/" and maybe "@" in our login like
> toto.titi/toto.com.
>
> It seems that cyrus reject this kind of logins, a quick look in the
> source ,we can see that the dot is explicitly rejected.
Well, the dot (".") is used a mailbox hierarchy separator. Cyrus uses
the dot, other systems typically use a slash ("/"). There are apparently
slashes to convert Cyrus to use the slash.
> I'm sure there are good reasons for that, but we really need this dot
> and slash things, without it we can't used cyrus ...
>
> Is there already a patch or an idea to accept this ?
> If not , if we code this patch will it be integrated in cyrus source
> tree ?
Tom
