Alexandros Vellis wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:13:48 -0700
> Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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".:(
>
> What's wrong with the ampersand, either in a unix file name or in an
> IMAP folder? It's us-ascii, so it's legal in IMAP. And I'm positive that
> it's legal in a unix filename too. (If you have trouble accessing it in
> the shell, it's because your shell parses the & for "execute in the
> background", and you have to escape it as in \& or enclose the filename
> in quotes).

Having the ampersand in the name made it IMPOSSIBLE to delete folders using
the previous e-mail client.  So, I've removed all of the ampersands from
the folder names, so I don't have any to test with SquirrelMail.   Just
like with the trailing space in the folder name problem I had, I could
NOT unsubscribe nor delete the folder with the ampersand in it and I had to
"fix" this manually by escaping the ampersand when manipulating this folder
via shell access to the server.

Does SquirrelMail account for these potentially problematic characters in
folder names by escaping, etc., or does it just pass the names through
un-touched for the underlying IMAP server to deal with?

Peace...

Tom



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