Re: Courier or Cyrus

["Michael F. Sprague" <mfs@sanellc.net>]

Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 14:04 -0500 "Michael F. Sprague" 
> <mfs@sanellc.net> wrote:
> 
> >I am running a Cyrus server currently with several hundred users and it's
> >been working fine for the past year or so.  After reading this thread I
> >started playing with courier to get a better feel between the two.  I
> >find the folder separator in courier, the '.', sort of annoying; at least
> >from a personal point of view.
> >
> >It seems to work okay in a basic IMAP client, the it also seems to cause
> >issues with a text reader like mutt.  Because the dot is the folder
> >separator character, can one have a folder name that contains a dot?  If
> >not, that seems a big issue for courier.  I mean, wouldn't the average
> >customer have an issue with that?
> >
> >I'm sorry if this is off-topic here, but I figured if this an issue for
> >courier, someone on the ISP list would have a good opinion on what the
> >average user says.
> >
> 
> When you setup use unixhierarchysep yes  -- this causes it to use / instead 
> of . when talking to clients.

Hmmm, I guess I missed that option when compiling courier.  How silly of me.
Thanks for the tip.

mikeS

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