[Kolab-devel] Problems with Cyrus and Folder Names

[Joon Radley]

Hi Martin,

> > > Firstly we need a list of the problematic characters. Then we can 
> > > check with the IMAP RFCs and the Cyrus implementation.
> >
> > This may change from file system type to file system type used. So 
> > determining the full range of problem characters can be 
> time consuming 
> > and error prone.
> 
> Hmm, to my knowledge all modern unix systems including Linux 
> support UTF-8 for filenames and directory names.

This is not a UTF-8 issue as the problem characters are all in the US-ASCII
range. RFC3501 specifies a UTF-7 encoding for folder names. Even when this
encoding is done on the problem characters the problem still persists. 

Best regards

Joon Radley
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