On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:09, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > On 4 Sep 2003, Matt wrote: > >Ok.. that's all good and all except... > >I've got close to 40,000 users (about 5,000 using webmail)... there's no > >way I'm going to go through and change this file for every single one... > >I'm also not able to just delete the file because SquirrelMail has no > >way to resubscribe to a folder... > > Could you do one check for me: With the new Binc, try creating a mailbox > under INBOX and see if that works. If it does work, then the solution is > quite simple. > > >Why was the syntax changed? > > Because the '/' is a much more natural hierarchy delimiter, because people > want to use dots '.' in mailbox names, and because the server has until > for a week ago been in beta development mode. > > Changes like this are in general done in development branches, but you can > be sure that such things will never happen in 1.2. In 1.3, however, things > can change again. The current branch, 1.2, is considered stable and only > bugfixes will be made there. > > Now, the easiest way to fix this problem for all your users is with a > one-liner like this following (assuming that it was possible to create > mailboxes): > > find <path> -name "bincimap-subscribed" | xargs perl -pi -e \ > 's/INBOX\./INBOX\//g' > > The <path> is a common parent directory for all your users. > > This is assuming you use Maildir++. That one line is run once, and then > all your users' subscriptions are updated. And I can almost guarantee you > that the hierarchy delimiter will never change again. > > Andy :-) -- Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hrmm.. ok this might do it... because... yes.. I can infact create mailboxes! just old ones look amess!
