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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.