From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 17:06:50 EDT
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> have a client telling me that '.' is perfectly valid in a mailbox, cause
> he can do it @earthlink.net ... I know with Cyrus IMAPd you can't, since
> the '.' denotes a subfolder, but can someone point me to an RFC or
> *something* that states that it is, in fact, not valid?
>
> I know how to do it with setting up a 'regular mailbox' and then just
> aliasing the first.last to that mailbox, but I know explaining that to him
> is going to raise counter-arguments, but if I can be on the 'technical
> high-ground' before that stage, it would be soooo much smoother ...
Its probably in the text of RFC 3501 or RFC 2342, but its pretty obvious
that whatever character the server uses as the hierarchy separator
(advertised either via NAMESPACE or LIST "" ""), will be treated as such
in a mailbox name. If a server decided to use 'a' as the separator
character, then the same would apply. FWIW, you can tell Cyrus to use
'/' as the separator by enabling the unixhierarchysep option in imapd.conf.
-- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
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