What is the fulldirhash algorithm??

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:08:19AM -0700, Rob Tanner wrote:
> 
>    I need to move a number of mailboxes onto a system runng Cyrus IMAP4
>    v2.2.3 with fulldirhash.  Adding them to the mailboxes database is not
>    a problem.  But what I need to know is where to put them, and that's
>    decided by the hashing algorithm.  I could probably figure it out by
>    digging through the source code, but if someone could lay it out in a
>    sentence or two, that would save me oodles of time, and I'd appreciate
>    it.

The best way to do this is to do it through IMAP, and let the server
calculate the hash characters and update various databases.  However,
here's a bit of perl that describes the full hash algorithm:

        $n = 0;
        foreach my $b (split(/ */, $name)) {
            $n = (($n << 3) ^ ($n >> 5)) ^ ord($b);
        }
        $h = chr(ord('A') + ($n % 23));

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