cyrus vs UW imap

[Uno Engborg]

zorglub78 at alyas-group.dynalias.com wrote:

>>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:31, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>>Personally I like the way Cyrus works, but on the other hand the
>>>learning
>>>curve initially is steeper than it has to be.
>>>
>>>Having nested mailboxes rocks.  Too bad dovecot doesn't support that.
>>>      
>>>
>>I thought it did if you use MailDir format for storage.  On the other
>>hand I routinely click my mouse button while it is still slightly
>>moving and with evolution connected to UW-imap I get an error message
>>about not being able to move the mailbox to be a child of itself. I
>>have one mailbox connected to an exchange server via imap and when
>>that happened it dragged the entire inbox folder into 'deleted items'
>>with no warning.  I'm not sure that's an improvement.
>>
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>An what about the dot in the username?
>I haven't yet succeded to use it with cyrus.
>
>Luc
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If you have dots in your usernames you could configure cyrus to use 
slash instead.
You do that by putting the line:

unixhierarchysep: yes

into your /etc/imapd.conf



Regards
Uno Engborg