cyrus vs UW imap

[Uno Engborg]

Craig White wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 06:58 +0200, zorglub78 at alyas-group.dynalias.com
>wrote:
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>>>zorglub78 at alyas-group.dynalias.com wrote:
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>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, but SquirrelMail is not able to use this configuration.
>>It seems to be unable to create mailboxes...
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>>
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>fix it - change the scripting from cm user.$USER to cm user/$USER - it
>has to be php code and rather easy to locate.
>
>Craig
>
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I think it even is one of the questions you are asked if you run the 
squirrelmail configuration script.
If not, you can edit this behavior in:

 /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/config.php

Regards
Uno Engborg