Changing IMAP separator - does it break things?

[Victor Sudakov]

Markus Winkler wrote:
> 
> On 14.10.20 04:36, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Do you think I can change the hierarchy separator in the "inbox"
> > namespace without breaking other clients and the mail layout on disk,
> > losing mail etc?
> 
> I personally would try to avoid such a change (really IMHO), especially if
> it's "only":
> 
> > I don't want to break mail for 50 people just to please one Mac Mail
> > user.
> 
> _one_ user. Could Thunderbird or another IMAP client be an option for this
> single user? And perhaps Apple can tell some details when their Mail client
> will be standards-compliant?

Looking at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8347018 I don't hold my breath.

> 
> Besides that: changing the hierarchy separator is generally possible. But
> you schould try and check that with a test system to prevent problems with
> your productive environment and all the other users.
> 

I was hoping someone had already done that and I could skip this step :-)

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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