cyrus vs UW imap

[zorglub78 at alyas-group.dynalias.com]

> zorglub78 at alyas-group.dynalias.com wrote:
>
>>>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:31, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>An what about the dot in the username?
>>I haven't yet succeded to use it with cyrus.
>>
>>Luc
>>
>>
>>
> 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
>

Yes, but SquirrelMail is not able to use this configuration.
It seems to be unable to create mailboxes...

Luc