Problem in mailbox name

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:47:21AM +0100, Vittorio Manfredini wrote:
> > I use cyrus-imapd-2.2 and Outlook with toltec connector all fine except that
> > Outloock is Italian and try to create a Folder on the IMAP server with the name
> > "Attività". This seem are not a good name for the imap server (sure for the
> > 'à' letter !!).
> >
> > There are some solution ??

In this case, you should mUTF-7 encode the string (your client should be
doing this for you).

> The clue is in imap/mboxname.c - the only characters cyrus allows in
> a mailbox name are defined in GOODCHARS. (FWIW I added an apostrophe "'"
> to this list, and the server is working fine - nice for "d'envoi")

GOODCHARS is indeed much more conservative than it needs to be (we tend to
be careful around anything that might cause someone trouble -- especially
in shell scripts).  However, you are still limited to 7bit characters
(which is why you should use mUTF-7).

-Rob

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