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[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:32:56PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > GOODCHARS is designed by default to be very conservative about what it
> > allows -- we could include a number of characters that we don't because
> > they are bad in various environemnts (especially the shell -- this
> > especially comes up when working with the mail store directly).
> >
> > I'm pretty sure there isn't any harm in including ', though I don't think
> > we'll be doing so in the base distribution.
>
> Could GOODCHARS be user-defined, in imapd.conf for example ?  It could
> default to the current constant.  IIRC, the RFC only forbid NUL and your
> hierarchy separator, so theorically any other character could be
> acceptable.

I worry about doing this -- 8bit characters, for example, are still not
allowed.

If an implementation of such was done carefully to only allow users to
specify "questionable" characters as allowed, it'd probably be ok.  I
don't want to commit to it without seeing the patch though.

-Rob

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