Oops!
Due to a small oversight (and not checking the tar.gz) on my part, the
distribution that I created was essentially just an alt-namespace
distro. I have repackaged the correct code and uploaded it to the URLs
below. If you have already downloaded the code, please grab it again.
Note: If you use CVS, this does NOT affect you.
Sorry any inconvenience,
Ken
Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> I am pleased to announce the availability of a selectable hierarchy
> separator for Cyrus IMAP. Up until now, Cyrus used a netnews-style
> hierarchy, where '.' was used as the hierarchy delimiter -- thus
> prohibiting '.' from appearing in mailbox names. This release allows a
> UNIX-style '/' separator to be used in the same fashion that David
> Fuchs' (and derivative) patches.
>
> This code leverages my previous alt-namespace work, and as a result does
> NOT change the on-disk mailstore structure, only what is sent via the
> IMAP protocol. This means that any existing server can begin serving up
> mailboxes using the UNIX hierarchy separator (and/or the alternate
> namespace) simply changing the appropriate imapd.conf option. In order
> to maintain compatibility with the on-disk structure, '.' in mailbox
> names are translated to '^' before being saved to disk.
>
> You should consider this code to be alpha, but it is fully functional
> and appears to be as stable as the alt-namespace code. I hacked this
> code in a couple of hours mainly as a proof of concept, so incompatible
> changes (such as the use of '^') may be made in the future, ie, DO NOT
> run this on a production server just yet. I am hoping to have people
> test this code for bugs and performance issues (currently none known)
> before I commit to making this part of the standard distribution.
>
> Configuring the server to use the UNIX hierarchy separator is done by
> setting "unixhierarchysep: yes" in imapd.conf. With this option, and
> the 'altnamespace' option, there are now four combinations of namespace
> and hierarchy delimiter.
>
> The code can be obtained from CMU's CVS repository as usual using the
> 'hier-sep-r1' tag. Otherwise, a pre-packaged distro can be obtained
> from:
>
> ftp://ftp.oceana.com/pub/cyrus-imapd-2.0.14-HIERSEP-r1.tar.gz
> http://www.oceana.com/ftp/cyrus-imapd-2.0.14-HIERSEP-r1.tar.gz
>
> Since I am the primary developer of this code, please send any feedback
> to me directly and/or the info-cyrus list. Please do NOT send bug
> reports to cyrus-bugs.
>
> Enjoy,
> Ken
> --
> Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place
> 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127
> --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
--
Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd.
Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place
716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127
--PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
