I think patching the server is a great idea! I made a patch a while ago
now, but I not many people have tested it... it works for me, but it
would be great to have a larger user-base testing it.
-David
Atif Ghaffar wrote:
> 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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