On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:14:36AM +0800, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
> > Reason why I haven't seriously considered Cyrus is I've read
> > before that it does not support dots in the username part of the
> > e-mail address. I think it's with the way how it implemented
> > storage of mailboxes and IMAP sub-folders -- using dots as
> > separators. Is this still true with the current versions?
>
> Try using a colon ":" where you want the dot to be. I recall
> seeing some of Mr.Sam's C code that essentially maps a colon to
> period. Can't remember where though...it might have made its way
> into Cyrus-IMAP.
I download the latest of both 1.5.x and 1.6.x of Cyrus and did a
quick grep but didn't find anything. And, I think you got
Courier and Cyrus mixed up -- the Mr. Sam I know is a developer
of Courier-IMAP...
> Not allowing "." in email addresses is a good idea for
> security, specially since email addresses usually map to
> directories or files in a filesystem.
Hmmm... I can't remember seeing this mentioned in any security
docs I have read so far. I'd appreciate it if you can point me
to one. AFAIK, any other character a-z, like the dot, also
"map" to directories or files in a filesystem...
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