unixhierarchy from false to true

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 29 12:06:12 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:37 +0000, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hello :)
> 
> Stupid question really, but...
> ... Some time ago, I built a cyrus-imapd server with some defaults options.
> Everything works really fine. Today, I'm going to need to add some new users
> with a dot in their name, like joe.1 and joe.2.
> I _know_ this is possible using the "unixhierarchy" option in imapd.conf, but I
> was concerned about turning on this option now that I already have created
> mailboxes without it turned on. I mean, can I just enable and use this option
> or will it do some nasty things to my already running setup/mailboxes ?
> 
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shouldn't matter - it's really an interface issue.

unixhierarchy = no # default

su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -fr user.craig'

or

unixhierarchy = yes # optional

su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -fr user/craig'

- thus, you can then have dots in usernames

Craig




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