Re: [bincimap] Folder names, execution, authentication (wow)

[Dan Mills]

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 11:45  AM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:

_But_ with the exception that folders that already start with a single 
'.'
are interpreted with the dot being part of the folder name. The user 
would
then be free to rename og delete such folders, just not create them..
I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I guess it'd be ok, but it's a 
little crappy that people will see dots in mailbox names, but won't be 
able to use them.  I don't have any serious problems with that 
solution, though, as long as it's worded clearly in the IMAPdir spec 
(which I'm sure you'll do).

It's a juggle-  add the complexity of an escape character, versus the 
simplicity of forbidding your users to do anything weird :-)  One thing 
to note, though, is that having an escape character might be useful in 
the future for as-of-yet unforeseen issues.

For example, say you later want to encode imap namespaces inside the 
IMAPdir.  You could use an escaped character without breaking backwards 
compatibility with existing IMAPdirs.  Like:

foo\:bla.bla

-Dan