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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> writes:
> 
> > what do people do about the change is group hierarchy seperator?
> > Exchange uses "foo/bar" where gnus uses "foo.bar".  I just have to do
> > the translation myself because Exchange is more promiscuous about
> > names than gnus?  Is that the solution?
> > 
> > I see that gnus doesn't support making groups with "/" in the names.
> > What have people done here?
> 
> Used group names with `/' names in them anyway. :-)
> 
> I patched my version of `gnus-read-group' to allow `/' in group names,
> and haven't noticed any problems.  I guess there might be problems
> with backends other than nnimap, and that's the reasons for the limit
> in valid characters.

Should this be a patch to gnus?

Soren