Default value changes in Cyrus 3

[Stephen Ingram]

While we are talking about it, can this just be switched on the fly if
someone is using the "." namespace? Does it only affect the admin in that
you have to type user/mailbox now instead of user.mailbox, or does the
change also affect users?

Steve

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:02:04 +1100
> Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmailteam.com> wrote:
>
> > Basically:
> >
> > 1) most of the rest of the world is using '/', so people expect it.
> >    Also, it means you can use '.' in mailbox names and in usernames,
> >    both of which people expect to be able to do due to other systems
> >    allowing it.
> > 2) various clients expect to be able to create top level names and get
> >    sad if they don't.  The reason not to use altnamespace in the past
> >    was that it didn't allow subfolders of INBOX, and there were a few
> >    other broken things about sort.  They have now been fixed, so it's
> >    safe to make it the default.
> > Both changes are to make the "out of the box" behaviour closer to what
> > most people expect.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bron.
>
> Thanks. May be adding your comments to the Cyrus web site would be
> useful to people who wonder whether to keep the < 3 defaults or go with
> the new ones.
>
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