single quote in mailbox

[Marc-Andre Gaudreau]

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

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.

Patrick Welche wrote:

>As ever, I'm moving users from courier to cyrus. All was well until I hit
>a mailbox with a single quote in its name which cyrus rejects. I had a look
>at rfc3501 and as far as I can tell, it doesn't prohibit a ' (allows astring).
>
>imap/mboxname.c allows:
>
>#define GOODCHARS " +,-.0123456789:=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~" 
>
>So, is there a reason for not allowing ', or is it a simple ;) matter of adding
>it to GOODCHARS and wondering about all the places in the C code which need
>\' ?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Patrick
>
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