On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Brasseur Valéry wrote: > what are the valid char in an mailbox name ? > > I was think that it was mutf-7 , but it seems that cyrus refuse de create a > user.abc.foo#bar mailbox name !!! > > should I escape something ? > > is there invalid char for Cyrus ?
Yeah, the mailbox names are limited to characters in the GOODCHARS define in mboxname.c (plus & for mUTF-7 encoding). Offhand I can't come up with a good reason for # to be disallowed other than someone was being paranoid when they wrote it. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
