Re: Default value changes in Cyrus 3

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:02:04 +1100
Bron Gondwana <[email protected]> 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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Janos Dohanics
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