On July 1, 11:43 am Amoureux Manfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have a cyrus IMAP platform. We use the dot ('.') as the folder
> separator.
> We use a webmail of ours to access the cyrus platform and we are going
> to add a new functionality : let the users create their own folders.
>
> So of course we must encode the folder names they submit before doing
> the creation.
>
> The trouble is : if the name contains the character '.', it is not
> encoded by our algorythm of UTF7 modified encoding, and as it is the
> character used for folder separation, it is considered as thus.
>
> We thought of encoding it our way, but the IMAP platform may be accessed
> by clients such as Outlook Express , which would be unlikely to
> understand our particular encoding.
My webmail client does not allow users to create folders that contain the
folder seperator. Perhaps that will solve your problem ?
RFC3501 section 5.1:
There are certain client considerations when creating a new mailbox name:
..
4) Usually, a character (determined by the server implementation)
is reserved to delimit levels of hierarchy.
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