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| author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2023-11-14 00:32:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2023-11-14 20:08:08 +0000 |
| commit | 0e2b20d6eb0754426d021d8db1fb8db7584dd925 (patch) | |
| tree | ca5bb354e948ed079cb104fbeab875dd57cf9fcc /Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod | |
| parent | 69c0b8ece354146649112268935d4db6b2cb7964 (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-0e2b20d6eb0754426d021d8db1fb8db7584dd925.tar.gz | |
Start lowercasing newsgroup names automatically since uppercase names are incompatible with IMAP and POP3 and also causes problems with both -extindex and -cindex. We'll also warn on eidx_key and newsgroup conflicts to avoid sometimes subtle breakage when using -extindex and -cindex.
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diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod index 1ef7f46f..d394d31f 100644 --- a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod +++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod @@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ Omitting this for a given inbox will prevent the inbox from being served by L<public-inbox-nntpd(1)>, L<public-inbox-imapd(1)>, and/or L<public-inbox-pop3d(1)> +Newsgroup names should be all lowercase. Uppercase characters are +converted to lowercase for compatibility with IMAP, POP3, and our +L<public-inbox-extindex(1)> and L<public-inbox-cindex(1)> tools +starting with public-inbox 2.0+ (they were unusable before). + Default: none, optional =item publicinbox.<name>.watch |