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Jan-Eric Hellenberg commented on JAMES-4099:
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That's a good question. However, for such an important system setting, I do not
quite like allowing arbitrary options that are not thoroughly validated by
tests. The annoying thing here is that I can imagine the system easily breaking
(now or in the future) in subtle and hard-to-debug ways when you get unlucky
with your selection. (For example, you would need to know that using '#' as a
delimiter, while maybe decent-looking at first, is a pretty bad idea because it
clashes with the namespace prefix character)
That said, I'm not opposed to adding more options; we could consider '|', ':',
',', '\' (any more suggestions?)
> Make mailbox folder delimiter configurable
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> Key: JAMES-4099
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-4099
> Project: James Server
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mailbox
> Reporter: Jan-Eric Hellenberg
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently, we use '.' as a constant hierarchical delimiter for mailbox
> folders.
> We believe this to be a suboptimal choice and think using '/' would serve
> better in general; however, changing the default is not desirable because it
> would break existing deployments. For this reason, we propose to add a
> configuration switch enabling to select a delimiter out of a list of suitable
> options (only '.' and '/' for now, with '.' being the default).
> This might also aid with #3545, where '.' as a delimiter is identified as a
> problem for JMAP as well.
>
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