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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: moving mail from nnml -> nnimap
Date: 19 Jun 2000 20:04:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23dm9sg21.fsf@angelica.rsasecurity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Soren Dayton's message of "19 Jun 2000 11:31:46 -0500"

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.




  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-19 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-19 14:11 Soren Dayton
2000-06-19 14:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-06-19 16:31   ` Soren Dayton
2000-06-19 18:04     ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2000-06-19 21:12       ` Soren Dayton
2000-06-20 12:10       ` Toby Speight
2000-06-19 18:10     ` Kai Großjohann

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