single quote in mailbox

[Patrick Welche]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:11:50AM -0400, Marc-Andre Gaudreau wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> I pretty much asked the same question in this message :
> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=gaudreau&msg=19930

I'm sorry I missed it! I only came across a reference from a pine user
trying to access cyrus :/ I suppose I should have done like you and just
tried it!

> I couldn't find any reason not to allow the single quote in the code or 
> the rfcs either.

It would be good to know what the reason was when that code was written..

> I was hoping somebody would answer this time...  Although I can't tell 
> you why the single quote is not in GOODCHARS, I can tell you that we 
> added it in mboxname.c (as posted in my message) and we've been running 
> in procuction for several months without any problems.

Great - I will do the same.

Cheers,

Patrick