[Kolab-devel] Problems with Cyrus and Folder Names

[Bernhard Reiter]

Fixing the cryus imapd might be a problem.
We could make an issue at our place and then create an issue
within the cryus bug tracker and next try to find out
what the technical problem is.
In addition we can have people that read the FAQ 
about this bug notify the cyrus people. ;)
(If is possible to vote on their bugs?)

Do we have any technical alternatives?



On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:28, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> "Joon Radley" <joon at radleys.co.za> writes:
> > "(" and ")" fails, this was tested by Till. "@" fails with virtdomain
> > enabled. "'" also fails, this was reported by 4 different people. "&" is
> > used as part of the RFC3501 encoding and I cannot remember if they had an
> > special escape for it.
>
> The & seems to be quoted correctly and is does work.  I don't know
> whether kontact tries to escape the other characters.
>
> >> The folder with @ is created on the server but setting
> >> annotations fails.  Folders with ( or ` cannot even be
> >> created.  AFAICT, kontact doesn't try to escape these
> >> characters for imap.
> >
> > So what would you propose as a solution to this.
>
> Fix Cyrus Imapd.  According to doc/overview.html as contained in
> imapd-2.2.12-2.3.0_kolab.src.rpm:
>
>   In this implementation, non-ASCII characters and shell metacharacters
>   are not permitted in mailbox names.
>
> ( ) ' & and ` are shell metacharacters.  & probably only works because
> of the modified utf7 support.
>
>    Bernhard
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