negative results of changing GOODCHARS?

[Patrick Welche]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:30:29AM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> Other than obviously difficult characters to cope with like: "@%*
> -- is there anything that's likely to break the server by
> expanding the list of acceptable characters in mailbox names to
> at least come closer to matching the RFC (which allows any
> printable ASCII character)?

The characters currently allowed are the safest. We added some here with
no problems, which is true for our setup, email clients etc, but not
necessarily true for everyone..

Patrick
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