Hi Alferd.
If you dont want to change username and dont want to patch the server then
you will need an IMAP/POP3 proxy that converts usernames with dots etc to
correct username on the mailbox.
cheers
Alfred Pfister wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I want to upgrade my users from POP3 to IMAP. Unfortunately some of them
> have a period in their mail adress which clashes with the mailbox
> hierarchy separator in Cyrus. I scanned through a discussion on this
> topic from last August and I know I can work around the problem, but I
> don't think I can do it without either patching the server code (which I
> don't want to do) or requiring those users to make a change to their
> client settings: if they use user.name to log into the POP server now
> they will have to change to user_name or some such to log into Cyrus. Am
> I right or did I miss something?
>
> I would also be interested to know if this is being worked on - I could
> delay the upgrade until the end of the 2nd quarter if I had a good
> enough reason.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Fred Pfister
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