Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> Just one note: Be aware that you are using a distribution which 
> heavily modifies configs and sometimes causes much trouble to some 
> users. As an example take postfix, Debian/Ubuntu seems to use it 
> chrooted whenever possible beside the fact that the postfix creator 
> doesn't recommend it.

This is OT, but I second this. Debian is a really good distribution - I 
use it almost exclusively since 8 years, but its developers often modify 
upstream configurations and/or code too much; the exim (configuration 
done by a gazillions of others Debian-specific files) and more recently 
openssl (entropy broken) examples come to my mind.

Back to Cyrus-imapd, I tried to use the Debian version, but after 
considering the Debian-specifics docs and scripts, I ended up compiling 
my own version, and use a really simple configuration, provided by the 
sources.

> If you really want unixhierarchysep then you may try to activate it 
> after you have everything up and runnning and the configs in a safe 
> place. But I don't think there is a very good reason to do so.

Well, I always found the '.' separator confusing for e-mail, but this is 
probably because I used uw-imap a lot before. IMHO, using the '/' 
hierarchy separator is easier for me, because I immediatly know that it 
is 'talking' about sub/folder. '.' is used for many other things, such 
as file extensions for example...

-- 
Nicolas