On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:32:56PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > GOODCHARS is designed by default to be very conservative about what it > > allows -- we could include a number of characters that we don't because > > they are bad in various environemnts (especially the shell -- this > > especially comes up when working with the mail store directly). > > > > I'm pretty sure there isn't any harm in including ', though I don't think > > we'll be doing so in the base distribution. > > Could GOODCHARS be user-defined, in imapd.conf for example ? It could > default to the current constant. IIRC, the RFC only forbid NUL and your > hierarchy separator, so theorically any other character could be > acceptable.
I worry about doing this -- 8bit characters, for example, are still not allowed. If an implementation of such was done carefully to only allow users to specify "questionable" characters as allowed, it'd probably be ok. I don't want to commit to it without seeing the patch though. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
