On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Patrick Welche wrote: > > I couldn't find any reason not to allow the single quote in the code or > > the rfcs either. > > It would be good to know what the reason was when that code was written.. > > > I was hoping somebody would answer this time... Although I can't tell > > you why the single quote is not in GOODCHARS, I can tell you that we > > added it in mboxname.c (as posted in my message) and we've been running > > in procuction for several months without any problems. > > Great - I will do the same.
GOODCHARS is designed by default to be very conservative about what it allows -- we could include a number of characters that we don't because they are bad in various environemnts (especially the shell -- this especially comes up when working with the mail store directly). I'm pretty sure there isn't any harm in including ', though I don't think we'll be doing so in the base distribution. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
