[Kolab-devel] Problems with Cyrus and Folder Names

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Joon,

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:57, Joon Radley wrote:
> > 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.

after that email I asked on cyrus-devel, see my other email
I just send as an answer to Martin.

> The problem is in the function mboxname_policycheck and in particular the
> definition of GOODCHAR. To fix this seems simple, either add the problem
> characters to GOODCHAR or modify the mboxname_policycheck function to allow
> the encoding of ASCII chanters. The first one seems to be the best of the
> two options, but I have no idea why the test is done with such a small
> number of characters and secondly if the Cyrus developers will accept a
> changes to this variable.
>
> > Do we have any technical alternatives?
>
> There is one of two options. Either use a custom encoding of characters or
> modify the server.
>
> The custom encoding will break all existing IMAP4 clients as regards to
> mailbox names and the server option can introduce unknown and hard to track
> bug issues in Cyrus.
>
> This is rather a crucial issue and needs to be resolved as soon as we can.
> So could I ask that we discuss this for one more day and then take a vote.

I guess all people would prefer a server solution.
So the question is: Can we do a server solution quickly?
The answers I have got look promissing.
We could test that patch that already exists and the cyrus developers
seems to be willing to support it.
If Martin manages to take a look at this patch today,
we have a second opinion and can resolv remaining problems
with the cyrus developers.

Bernhard

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