--On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 11:58 AM -0400 Edward Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> Allowing null characters in particular is problematic for any code |> that |> uses null-terminated strings for messages or parts of messages, and | | Using null-terminated strings with data that might contain nulls is | problematic.
On the NULL issue, IMAP does not allow bare NULLs in any data that either the server or client sends. If you check the formal syntax you will see that the 'literal' element used to send the message content in an APPEND explicitly excludes NULL as a valid character. So if Eudora is sending bare NULLs that is a protocol bug you can bounce back to them and justify having them fix.
NB There is an IMAP BINARY extension in the works that does allow bare NULLs, but only when used with the specific extension syntax.
Bare CR or LF is another issue...
-- Cyrus Daboo
