unix hierarchy delimiter

[Ken Murchison]

Pieter Vanmeerbeek wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are running a linux from scratch system and use the cyrus delivery 
> agent.
> One of our customers wants to use a '.' in the user names. I've search 
> the Internet and found the possibility to use the unix hierarchy 
> seperator as a delimiter and therefore allow '.'s in user names. I've 
> set ' unixhierarchysep: yes' in the imapd.conf config file but something 
> strange happens.
> Mail is stored on the 'mail/' partition. Before enabling the option 
> subfolders  were created in 'mail/user/' per user , for example 
> '/mail/user/user.pieter'. With the option enabled I was expecting a 
> 'mail/user/pieter.with.points' constructions, but I get 
> 'mail/user^pieter^with^points' instead . The mailboxes are constructed 
> and a login is possible, but I can't access the INBOx folder :
> 
> *ERROR : Could not complete request.*
> Query: SELECT "INBOX"
> Reason Given: Mailbox does not exist

You created the mailbox incorrectly.  If using cyradm, you should have done:

cm user/peter.with.points

NOT:

cm user.peter.with.points

If you change the hiersep,you have to *use* it. ;)



> 
> 
> Can anyone explain me what's wrong? This is our version information :
> 
> localhost> ver
> name       : Cyrus IMAPD
> version    : v2.2.3 2004/01/14 02:11:03
> vendor     : Project Cyrus
> support-url: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
> os         : Linux
> os-version : 2.4.20-axs-3
> environment: Built w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.17
>             Running w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.17
>             Built w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 
> 19, 2002)
>             Running w/Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 
> 19, 2002)
>             Built w/OpenSSL 0.9.6g 9 Aug 2002
>             Running w/OpenSSL 0.9.6d 9 May 2002
>             mmap = shared
>             lock = fcntl
>             nonblock = fcntl
>             auth = unix
>             idle = poll
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Pieter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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