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.
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, at 00:44, Janos Dohanics wrote:
As I'm preparing to move to Cyrus 3, I have noticed thatunixhierarchysep (/) is now "on" as well as altnamespace is now "on".I have mostly been using default settings in previous versions, and Iguess one shouldn't change sensible defaults willy-nilly, so I assumedevelopers had good reasons to change these defaults?--Janos Dohanics----Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/To Unsubscribe:
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