imap mailbox name

[Ken Murchison]

Brasseur Valéry wrote:

> in this set :
>   !"#$%*;<=>@[]^_'{|}
> 
> what are the REAL invalid char for an IMAP folder,

Sift through the grammar in RFC 3501.


> and what are those which Cyrus refused,

Anything not in GOODCHARS in mboxname.c.


> and why ?

If the two lists above don't match (other than '.'), I don't know.

> 
> did some of them will need m-utf7 encoding ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rob Siemborski [mailto:rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:03 PM
>>To: Brasseur Valéry
>>Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>Subject: Re: imap mailbox name 
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Brasseur Valéry wrote:
>>
>>
>>>what are the valid char in an mailbox name ?
>>>
>>>I was think that it was mutf-7 , but it seems that cyrus 
>>
>>refuse de create a
>>
>>>user.abc.foo#bar mailbox name !!!
>>>
>>>should I escape something ?
>>>
>>>is there invalid char for Cyrus ?
>>
>>Yeah, the mailbox names are limited to characters in the 
>>GOODCHARS define
>>in mboxname.c (plus & for mUTF-7 encoding).
>>
>>Offhand I can't come up with a good reason for # to be 
>>disallowed other
>>than someone was being paranoid when they wrote it.
>>
>>-Rob
>>
>>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
>>Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
>>
>>
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