unixhierarchy from false to true

Scott Russell lnxgeek at us.ibm.com
Tue Aug 30 10:22:34 EDT 2005


Charles Marcus wrote:
> What is the advantage/disadvantage? Is the only difference the ability 
> to use the dot in foldernames? In other words, if you set this to true, 
> do you *lose* anything?

You loose the ability to have a / in mailbox names and gain the ability 
to have a . in mailbox names :)

> Just curious why it is set to off by default.

Backwards compatibility with older cyrus imapd versions if I remember right.

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Scott Russell <lnxgeek at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center System Admin




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