Hi Atif
Where could I find such a proxy?
Cheers, Fred
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Atif Ghaffar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Freitag, 23. März 2001 18:43
>To: Alfred Pfister
>Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Re: Period in mailbox names (again)
>
>Hi Alferd.
>
>If you dont want to change username and dont want to patch the server then
>you will need an IMAP/POP3 proxy that converts usernames with dots etc to
>correct username on the mailbox.
>
>cheers
>
>Alfred Pfister wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I want to upgrade my users from POP3 to IMAP. Unfortunately some of them
>> have a period in their mail adress which clashes with the mailbox
>> hierarchy separator in Cyrus. I scanned through a discussion on this
>> topic from last August and I know I can work around the problem, but I
>> don't think I can do it without either patching the server code (which I
>> don't want to do) or requiring those users to make a change to their
>> client settings: if they use user.name to log into the POP server now
>> they will have to change to user_name or some such to log into Cyrus. Am
>> I right or did I miss something?
>>
>> I would also be interested to know if this is being worked on - I could
>> delay the upgrade until the end of the 2nd quarter if I had a good
>> enough reason.
>>
>> Thanks for the help
>> Fred Pfister
>
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