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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Basically:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">1) most of the rest of the world is using '/', so people expect it. Also, it means you can use '.' in mailbox names and in usernames, both of which people expect to be able to do due to other systems allowing it.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">2) various clients expect to be able to create top level names and get sad if they don't. The reason not to use altnamespace in the past was that it didn't allow subfolders of INBOX, and there were a few other broken things about sort. They have now been fixed, so it's safe to make it the default.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Both changes are to make the "out of the box" behaviour closer to what most people expect.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Cheers,<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Bron.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, at 00:44, Janos Dohanics wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div>As I'm preparing to move to Cyrus 3, I have noticed that<br></div>
<div>unixhierarchysep (/) is now "on" as well as altnamespace is now "on".<br></div>
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<div>I have mostly been using default settings in previous versions, and I<br></div>
<div>guess one shouldn't change sensible defaults willy-nilly, so I assume<br></div>
<div>developers had good reasons to change these defaults?<br></div>
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