Invalid mailbox name

[Paul van der Vlis]

Op 21-09-16 om 14:11 schreef Michael Menge via Info-cyrus:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Paul van der Vlis via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am syncing many mailboxes from one IMAP server to another. Now I get
>> sometimes errors on mailbox names. I found out that Cyrus does not
>> accept brackets in a mailbox name. Is there documentation about what
>> characters are accepted in mailbox names??
> 
> The allowed ASCII-Chars are defined in the macro GOODCHARS in
> imap/mboxname.c
> (https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/blob/master/imap/mboxname.c#L1495).
> 
> non-ASCII-Chars are handled by RFC 3501 5.1.3.
> 
> This subject has been discussed a few years ago on this list, and GOODCHARS
> has been changed between cyrus versions.
> 
> 2.2:    #define GOODCHARS "
> +,-.0123456789:=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~"
> 2.3:    #define GOODCHARS "
> #$'+,-.0123456789:=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~"
> Master: #define GOODCHARS "
> #$'()*+,-.0123456789:=?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~"

Thanks for your answer!

I am wondering about the dot. So far I know I cannot use it in a mailbox
name, but it is in the list.

And what's "master" exactly? So far I see, I cannot use e.g. brackets in
a mailbox name.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.

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