On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Stephan Buys wrote: > We just wanted to let you know that we have discovered a bug in Cyrus IMAPd > with it's handling of Virtual Domains.
I wouldn't call this a bug, I'd call it a reasonable behavior given the server administrator's choice to support virtual domains. A server is always free to disallow the creation of a mailbox if it doesn't like its name (Indeed, "INBOX/../../../../vmlinux" is a valid name, but I doubt anyone would think it would be correct to allow -- especially on systems where the unix filesystem is directly involved). Note that this does not affect systems where virtual domains are not enabled: S: * OK mail-fe6.andrew.cmu.edu Cyrus IMAP4 Murder v2.2.2-BETA-082 server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE STARTTLS AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=ANONYMOUS SASL-IR S: C01 OK Completed C: A01 AUTHENTICATE KERBEROS_V4 ... S: A01 OK Success (privacy protection) Authenticated. Security strength factor: 56 x create [EMAIL PROTECTED] x OK Completed y delete [EMAIL PROTECTED] y OK Completed In the virtual domains configration, the administrator has made the explicit choice that the benefit of virtual domains outweighs the loss of @ as a valid mailbox character. Certainly, no client should rely on the ability to "escape" for special characters within a mailbox name (other than via UTF-7). -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
