legal characters in mailbox names

[Michael Salmon]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2002 07:24:31 PM -0400 Ken Murchison 
<ken at oceana.com> wrote:
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| Quoting Ian Macdonald <ian at google.com>:
|
| > Hi,
| >
| > For the purposes of performing a conversion, I'd like to know which
| > characters are legal in Cyrus mailbox names.
| >
| > Is this mentioned in one of the docs somewhere?
|
| ./mboxname.c:#define GOODCHARS
| " +,-.0123456789:=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~"
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While the above is correct what is not mentioned is that & switches to a 
modified base 64 encoding of the name e.g. Böker => B&APY-cker and
Questions&answers => Questions&-answers. The correct answer then is that 
all 16 bit unicode values are allowed.

/Michael
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