On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: > > I've gotten a request (from someone I'd rather not say 'no' to) to > > create an IMAP account with a period in the username. If I set > > "unixhierarchysep=yes" in imapd.conf on an already established 2.1 > > server, what kinds of problems can I expect to run into? > > Any currently running clients which connect to an imapd with the new > setting might have an issue, but other than that, well behaved clients > shouldn't care. Restarting the client should get it to refresh its > mailbox list.
If someone has hard-wired a client configuration to look for, say cmu.misc.market they won't be able to find it any more, and they will need to fix their configuration to be cmu/misc/market -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
