Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Schmehl, Paul L]

This simply isn't true.  At UTD we are using altnamespace *and* we allow our users to have a PEA (Personalized Email Address) which can include firstname.lastname at .

If Amos Gouaux is "listening" maybe he can explain *how* he does it, but I certainly can confirm that it can be done, using altnamespace and the . separator.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Project Coordinator
University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
AVIEN Founding Member 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fair [mailto:michael at daclubhouse.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:08 PM
> To: adam at morrison-ind.com
> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation
> 
> 
> > Do "typical" installations use altnamespace or the hierarchical name
> space?
> 
> One point I didn't see on the list about this so far
> in regards to "typical" installations and unix hierarchy 
> separator feature is that without it there is now way to have 
> a "." in the mailbox name which is important in at least two 
> "typical" situations.
> 
> 1) firstname.lastname as the mailboxname/userid
>    or any situation with "." as part of the ID.
> and
> 2) "user at domain.dom"  as the mailboxname/userid
> 
> The first is common in some large organizations.
> 
> The second is for all Cyrus installs of versions
> 2.0.x and 2.1.x that want to do single IP
> virtualhosting without implementing some sort of
> rewrite or lookup schema.  Version 2.2 will no
> longer need the unixhierarchy option to support this.
> 
> I'd consider both of these a common enough mail
> installation to make the unixhierarchy separator
> worth mentioning.
> 
> -- Michael --
> 
>