On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:02:04 +1100 Bron Gondwana <brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Janos Dohanics ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
