Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.13 Released

Bob Tito lists at magicfingers.org
Sat May 3 04:35:27 EDT 2003


Ken Murchison said:
>
>
> Bob Tito wrote:
>> Ken Murchison said:
>>
>>>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>>
>>>Sounds to me like either you had a hacked version of 2.1.12 or you
>>>enabled and then disabled unixhierarchysep.  By default, Cyrus doesn't
>>>allow '.' in the usernames, so /usr/sieve/?/virt.user.name should never
>>>happen.
>>
>>
>> I am sorry to dissapoint you, but NO hack applied, and from the start i
>> had unixhierarchysep: yes in my imapd.conf , and at some moment i added
>> altnamespace: yes.. that is all. All the time the sieve scripts remained
>> working until the upgrade to 2.1.13.
>>
>> Again, perhaps i am to blame, who knows... ;-)
>> But, it seemed important enough to give notice about that. Solved here
>> in
>> 5 minutes, but others might have bigger impact ?
>
>
> I stand corrected.  I just looked at the CVS logs and this change was
> made between 2.1.12 and 2.1.13.  The old behavior was inconsistent with
> the rest of the code, and the change fixed this.  Apparently none of us
> gave any thought to th efact that this would break existing
> installations  :(
>
> As you noted, this is easily fixed with a perl/shell script run on the
> sievedir.

Ok this is solved then ;-)
But could this change also have broken squatter ?
i tried to use this (just finding out all possibilties) and is look like
it cannot handle the maildirs in this format ?

Regards, Bob

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