Brackets in foldernames

[Eric Luyten]

> >> we are in the process of migration from UW-IMAPD to Cyrus. Some of our users
> >> have foldernames with brackets. Is there a way to enable the use of
> >> brackets in foldernames in Cyrus?
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> >
> > We migrated from UW-IMAPD to Cyrus (2.2.13) about a year ago
> > and I had to change the 'GOODCHARS' macro in imap/mboxname.c
> >
> > We added   ()'*?;[]%<>
> 
> Wouldn't that present problems for IMAP commands that use the '*' and '%' 
> wildcard characters?  Or is there some intelligent escaping of "bad" 
> characters in mailbox names used by the IMAP protocol?


We haven't seen any adverse effects in 13 months of operations.

(50k users, 277k mailboxes, 0.5 million authentications per day,
 a zillion different POP and IMAP clients)


Eric.