Hi David
Could you give some more details, such as 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: Alfred 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 it.
>
>-David
>
>Atif Ghaffar wrote:
>
>> 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. Unfortunately some of them
>>> have a period in their mail adress which clashes with the mailbox
>>> hierarchy separator in Cyrus. I scanned through a discussion on this
>>> topic from last August and I know I can work around the problem, but I
>>> don't think I can do it without either patching the server code (which I
>>> don't want to do) or requiring those users to make a change to their
>>> client settings: if they use user.name to log into the POP server now
>>> they will have to change to user_name or some such to log into Cyrus. Am
>>> I right or did I miss something?
>>>
>>> I would also be interested to know if this is being worked on - I could
>>> delay the upgrade until the end of the 2nd quarter if I had a good
>>> enough reason.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help
>>> Fred Pfister
>>
>>
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