More special chars in mailbox names

[Ken Murchison]

Ken Murchison wrote:
> While looking over bug #3002, 
> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3002
> 
> I started wondering what other special characters we might want to 
> allow.  The original authors were more restrictive with GOODCHARS than 
> the RFC.  AFAICT the following characters are permitted by RFC 3501 but 
> aren't included in GOODCHARS
> 
> ! # $ & ' ; < > ? [ ^ ` } |
> 
> 
> ! and ^ have special meaning to Cyrus, so we may not want to add these 
> to GOODCHARS.  & and ? might conflict with modified UTF-7 encoding.
> 
> Looking back at the list archives, there have been several requests to 
> allow ' (single quote) and I'm included to do so.
> 
> Does anybody want to make a case for adding more?

I'm leaning towards adding ' # $  to 2.3.13.  Any objections?

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University