Error creating mailboxex with an "&" inside

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

the IMAP Protocoll uses a special encoding based on UTF-7 to encode non-ASCII
charackters. & is used to mark the beginning of such an encoding. &
itself is encoded as &- . There are also other ASCII charackters which
are not allowed.
The allowed charackters are defiend in mboxname.c "#define GOODCHARS ..."
Keep in mind that some charakters have a speacial meaning befor you add them
to GOODCHARS


Quoting Toschi Pietro <Pietro.Toschi at actalis.it>:

>
>
> Hello everybody
>
> Apparently, cyrus-imapd does not support mailboxes with some letters
> inside the name. "&" is one of that. I have some mailboxes containing
> that symbol to be migrated from another server (SUN) but I always get an
> error.
>
> Looking at the IMAP RFC it seems very complex to me to understand what
> characters are supported and how by the protocol. I wander if there is a
> way to make cyrus accept such mailboxes, for example using some sort of
> escape sequences, encoding rules or so.
>
>
>
> Do someone have a solution to this annoying problem?
>
>
>
> Bye
>
>
>
> Pietro
>
>
>
>
>
>



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M.Menge                                 Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316
Universitaet Tuebingen                  Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912
Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          mail:
michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Waechterstrasse 76
72074 Tuebingen

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Hi,

the IMAP Protocoll uses a special encoding based on UTF-7 to encode non-ASCII
charackters. & is used to mark the beginning of such an encoding. &  
itself is encoded as &- . There are also other ASCII charackters which  
are not allowed.
The allowed charackters are defiend in mboxname.c "#define GOODCHARS ..."
Keep in mind that some charakters have a speacial meaning befor you add them
to GOODCHARS


Quoting Toschi Pietro <Pietro.Toschi at actalis.it>:

>
>
> Hello everybody
>
> Apparently, cyrus-imapd does not support mailboxes with some letters
> inside the name. "&" is one of that. I have some mailboxes containing
> that symbol to be migrated from another server (SUN) but I always get an
> error.
>
> Looking at the IMAP RFC it seems very complex to me to understand what
> characters are supported and how by the protocol. I wander if there is a
> way to make cyrus accept such mailboxes, for example using some sort of
> escape sequences, encoding rules or so.
>
>
>
> Do someone have a solution to this annoying problem?
>
>
>
> Bye
>
>
>
> Pietro
>
>
>
>
>
>



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M.Menge                                 Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316
Universitaet Tuebingen                  Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912
Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          mail:  
michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Waechterstrasse 76
72074 Tuebingen
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