Is "unixhierarchysep: yes" the norm now?

[Ken Murchison]

Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Dan Delaney wrote:
> 
>> Hello all. Just starting to configure Cyrus and convert all of my mbox 
>> files to it. I was wondering, is it the norm these days to use 
>> "unixhierarchysep:yes"? Are there any modern email clients that don't 
>> work either with it or without it?
> 
> 
> None that I know of.  CMU uses unixhierarchysep: no quite successfully, 
> many other sites use "yes" equally successfully.
> 
> "yes" give you the advantage of being able to have dots in the user 
> names (for inboxes), which is important for some installations.
> 
> Note that within a murder enviornment you need to use the same setting 
> throughout.
> 
> Ken -- is unixhierarchysep: yes required for virtdomains?  I don't 
> recall...

No, unihierarchysep, altnamespace and virtdomains are all mutually 
exclusive.

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