On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:27:00AM -0600, Russell Wilton wrote:

> In any case, my main complaint was that users want to put periods in 
> their folder names, and they can't with the current special status of 
> that character.

They certainly can, except that their stupid mail client is broken.

IMAP folder names use a modified version of the UTF-7 character set.

Normally, M-UTF-7 is used to encode non-USASCII characters only.  However,
I see no technical reason not to have the IMAP client use modified-UTF-7
for special characters also.

I know for a fact that this works, because I've done it.  Locally, I
have folders with periods, forward slashes, backward slashes, pretty much
any character.  And, it works whether the local server used is Courier-IMAP,
UW-IMAP, or anything else.

-- 
Sam


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