Re: [SM-USERS] Help needed with invalid folder

[Tom Williams]

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:43:20PM -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
> Any ideas?  Must I manually edit the subscribed folder file(s) manually
> to update folder names, etc.?

This is what I did when I migrated our staff from the bloody awful
GroupWise system to our current combination of mailstore plus Squirrel.
GroupWise seems very prone to the creation of folders with spaces in and
SquirrelMail doesn't support all the possible legal names for IMAP
folders.

SquirrelMail doesn't let you create folders with names that end in
spaces, though, so you should only see this problem if people alternate
between various clients.
 

Spaces haven't been TOO much of a problem, for the most part. The trailing space is what caused the grief.   At least on Unix, IMAP folders are stored as hidden directories in the filesystem and I've had some "interestng" problems with folders being named with an ampersand embedded, "GOOD & BAD".  :(

Does SquirrelMail do much validation of folder names BEFORE creating folders?

Thanks...

Peace...

Tom