Mailbox names containing hierarchy separator

[Grant Baillie]

Sometimes, users will want to create mailboxes whose names contain the hierarchy separator. A common case is to have dates in the name (say, "Work - 11/02") when the server's separator is "/". They are, not unnaturally, surprised at the results, since they expected to get a single mailbox, not two levels of hierarchy. (Presumably, this isn't so big deal for clients which present the output of LIST more or less directly, but most clients don't do that because it doesn't scale very well).

A couple of ideas for dealing with that I can think of are:

1) For "/", use a Unicode character like U+2215, which will display approximately the way the user expects. I think there's a similar unichar for "." and maybe even "\".

2) Modified UTF-7 encode the separator to get the mailbox name. I think this is illegal according to Section 5.1.3 (Mailbox International Naming Convention) of the spec, though.

Any comments/suggestions would be welcome

--Grant

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Grant Baillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mac OS X Mail, Apple Computerm, Inc
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