common question - dot in email prefix

[Carl P. Corliss]

Fred Blaise wrote:
[snip]
> Is there any way at all to create mailboxes such as user.fname.lname ?
> ending up as fname.lname at someco.com ? I kinda read that with the Unix
> path separator, it would work, so I tried / and \ before the dot, but
> nothing. I must have misunderstood.

Did you set, 'unixhierarchysep: yes' in your imapd.conf ? :-) If you did, it's just a matter of 
creating the mailbox using: user/fname.lname at domain.tld  (the @domain.tld assumes you are using 
cyrus-imapd >= 2.2).

HTH,

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Carl P. Corliss
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