[issue46220] imaplib.py "select" mailbox names containing spaces.

2022-01-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I presume you mean the mailbox parameter of imaplib.IMAP.select(). https://docs.python.org/3/library/imaplib.html#imaplib.IMAP4.select IMAP4.select(mailbox='INBOX', readonly=False) Select a mailbox. Returned data is the count of messages in mailbox (EXIST

[issue46220] imaplib.py "select" mailbox names containing spaces.

2022-01-01 Thread Matthew H. McKenzie
New submission from Matthew H. McKenzie : A mailbox (folder) need not be for a recipient and need not be the private part of an RFC2822 address. Passing a value of "000 Bookings" to select() results in validation issues when the tokens are parsed as arguments and there are too many. It would