also sprach Kyle Wheeler kyle-dovecot@memoryhole.net [2007.08.23.2103 +0200]:
Check out section 9, Formal Syntax. Specifically, "flag-keyword", which is defined to be an "atom", which is a sequence of ANY character except the "atom-specials". In other words, a flag-keyword is a string of one or more characters, not including (, ), {, " ", control characters, %, *, ", \, and ].
So this would mean we could use UTF-7 (RFC 2152) to encode pretty much anything in those tags.
Is there a maximum length? I could not tell from the document.
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