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<body><div>On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Stephen Ingram wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Bron Gondwana <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brong@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">brong@fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<div><div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><blockquote defang_data-gmailquote="yes" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Yeah, I'm afraid so.<br></div>
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<div>It's going to kind of suck for FastMail customers as much as anyone actually - since that's what we use! But here's the thing:<br></div>
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<div>a) it will be possible to switch to the netnews way if you want<br></div>
<div>b) but if you have virtdomains AND netnews separator, then that will mean that you need to switch. Hopefully most clients will cope - I haven't tested it.<br></div>
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<div>If you DON'T have virtdomains, or the users are all in the default domain, then it will keep working just the same. I guess we could have a config option "strip domain if same" or something, and get the same display as what we have now despite the different representation internally. The only thing is, you _could_ share with users in other domains if you wanted.<br></div>
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<div>Since everything is in one domain on our system, it sounds like you are saying we can stay with what we have. I'm wondering though how difficult it would be to change to unixheirarchysep method. Does this simply change the way that the server presents the mailbox information to the client, and, thus, require changes to the cyrus database files or does it actually require changes to how the files/directories are stored on the disk? If it's just the cyrus database, is this difficult to convert? I'm guessing there is as you would want to deploy this at Fastmail, right?<br></div>
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<div>In theory you can run different imapds with different configurations. It might be a little tricky due to the sieve scripts being in whatever namespace is the server default, but it's probably manageable.<br></div>
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<div>It's going to be a pain to deploy at FastMail for historical reasons - but I would like to switch everyone over to unixhs and altns along with setting up a new servername to connect to, because then we can support dots in usernames and sharing across domains, which are both often-requested features.<br></div>
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<div>The changes in the database format are easy - the hard part is getting everybody to reconfigure their clients!<br></div>
<div><br>So I suspect we will keep the existing endpoint (mail.messagingengine.com) with compatible behaviour (suppress other domains, strip domains, regular namespace) and tell new users to use the new server name so they can see everything else.<br></div>
<div><br>Bron.<br></div>
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<div class="signature">Bron Gondwana<br></div>
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