Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: > > How does this work of you want to create a folder > with a '/' in the name? > > Sounds like we've still got a reserved character that can't > be in folder names. Something needs to be the hierarchy separator. Tom

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-27 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
You wouldn't in a username, but in a folder name I can easily see wanting to have .'s and /'s However I see that you have to have a separator of SOME kind to use in mailbox names. And you're ultimately limited by the IMAP protocol command set. Atif Ghaffar wrote: > > "Joel M. Baldwin" wrote: >

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread Atif Ghaffar
"Joel M. Baldwin" wrote: > How does this work of you want to create a folder > with a '/' in the name? > > Sounds like we've still got a reserved character that can't > be in folder names. Why would you want to have a "/" in the username? -- Atif Ghaffar Internet Development Manager 4unet AG/

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread David Fuchs
That's a good point, you can't create a mailbox/subfolder that has a slash in it. I've found, however, that the ability to have a dot outweighs the loss of the slash. If you want you could simply edit the patch, it's basically a unified diff so you shouldn't have any problem going through it

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
How does this work of you want to create a folder with a '/' in the name? Sounds like we've still got a reserved character that can't be in folder names. David Fuchs wrote: > > Alfred, > > I created the patch for cyrus-imapd version 2.0.11. It works on 2.0.12 > as well, which is the

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread David Fuchs
what the patch does, which > version it's based on etc? > > Cheers, Fred > > >> -Original Message- >> From:David Fuchs [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent:Samstag, 24. März 2001 00:25 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: A

RE: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Pfister
Hi Atif Where could I find such a proxy? Cheers, Fred >-Original Message- >From: Atif Ghaffar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Freitag, 23. März 2001 18:43 >To:Alfred Pfister >Cc:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Re: Period in mailbox names (ag

RE: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Pfister
red Pfister; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Re: Period in mailbox names (again) > >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

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-23 Thread David Fuchs
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

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-23 Thread Atif Ghaffar
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. Unfortu