[Dovecot] Dovecot RFC non-compliance: Mailbox names

[Tony Kay]

Timo,

My question was not meant to be a complaint...I think it is pretty silly to use * and % in a folder name. I am happy telling users not to be that silly. I was just curious if you knew something I didn't (like a newer RFC that revised the decision of allowed folder names).

Thanks!

Tony

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:35:51 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 15.2.2006 20:40, "Tony Kay" <tkay at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Was there any discussion about the imap/commands-util.c:48?
> > 
> > 46:   /* make sure it even looks valid */
> > 47:   sep = mail_storage_get_hierarchy_sep(storage);
> > 48:   if (*mailbox == '\0' || strspn(mailbox, "\r\n*%?") != 0) {
> > 49:      client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Invalid mailbox name.");
> > 
> > which is technically not RFC-compliant? I have a feeling it fixes much more
> > important things than it breaks (i.e. LIST/LSUB), but then again we never had
> > complaints from people using those characters in names until they stopped
> > being supported.
> 
> Hmm. I suppose it's not all that useful to deny * and % in mailbox names.
> You're the first one to complain about it though :) I'll remove the
> restriction from future releases.
> 


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