Okay, I tried this out, on an existing mail spool ... two words: ACK ACK!
'k, looking at the file system, to start, I'm seeing changes:
The first mailbox is 'before' and the second is 'after':
12524 ./s/user/seminars/sent-mail
12532 ./s/user/seminars
12534 ./s/user
12536 ./s
8 ./u/user^sakellariou
8 ./u/user^sakellariou^sent-mail
18 ./u
Does the mailbox creation stuff have have to change also? We create all
ours as 'user.<userid>', so do we have to change it all to user/userid? :(
If so, is there a way in PHP of finding out whether the seperator is a '.'
or a '/'?
Thx ...
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, David Lang wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Carl P. Corliss wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:17 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
you can't easily have [EMAIL PROTECTED] within Cyrus ... so, I have
clients create first_last, and create an alias that delivers to that
"central mailbox" ... I just have to extend mailadmin to allow for
adding aliases to the virtuals table next ...
And why not? I have it working. (although I'm not 100% sure since I only
have it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I didn't try [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I'm
sure it's do-able
It is 100% possible and not difficult at all to use... so long as
unixhierarchysep is turned on.
'k, I haven't investigated that one too closely, but ... how does that
affect sub-folders and mail readers? If I change unixhierarchysep to 1,
how does that affect outlook? are clients going to need to somehow
reconfigure their mail reader? Or is this totally transparent?
one of the things that the server tells the client when it connects is what
the seperator character is, cyrus uses '.' some other imap servers usr '/'
while others use '\'. the client is supposed to honor what the server tells
it, and if it doesn't it will have problems with some servers (or the user
will have to configure it on the client per server)
And, if totally transparent, just curious as to why it defaults to '.'?
historical reasons. it has to default to something, and back when there
really weren't that many people useing e-mail (when the cyrus project
started) e-mail addresses tended to be short, alphanumeric words so '.'
wasn't any worse (or nessasarily much better) then any other option.
now, I wasn't around at that time, I'm sure that others can give better
reasons (or at least more insight into the project), but I could see the
argument that since . isn't a directory seperation character for any OS
nativly, it's somewhat safer to user that so that any mistakes in validating
(and converting) the folder names would result in an error rather then access
to unexpected things.
David Lang
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