imap mailbox name

[Brasseur Valéry]

in this set :
  !"#$%*;<=>@[]^_'{|}

what are the REAL invalid char for an IMAP folder, and what are those which Cyrus refused, and why ?

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
> 
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