Special characters in mailbox names

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Mar 26 11:38:58 EST 2004


Pierre Scholtes wrote:

> Hi list
> 
>  
> 
> I’m now trying to work this problem out for some days and can’t get 
> through it. I looked up the archive but couldn’t find any message about 
> this.
> 
>  
> 
> In order to get the bynari insight connector working with cyrus imap and 
> this f*** French version of outlook I need to be able to create 
> mailboxes with the name “Boîte d’envoi”. I think that the problem is 
> that cyrus imap doesn’t like the “ ’ ” in mailbox names. I always get an 
> INVALID MAILBOX NAME as result when trying to create the mailbox.
> 
> Does anybody know how to create mailboxes containing this kind of 
> special characters.

Try adding it to GOODCHARS in mboxname.c, but I can't guarantee that 
this won't break something.

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