From: Laurens van Alphen (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 17:15:12 EDT
> 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?
In fact, a dot is perfectly legal (rfc2822*) and if you use
'unixhierarchysep: yes' in /etc/imapd.conf you *can* use things like
'laurens.van.alphen' as a mailbox name. At least in 2.1.12 we can.
*) See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html:
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
local-part = dot-atom / quoted-string / obs-local-part
dot-atom = [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
dot-atom-text = 1*atext *("." 1*atext)
Cheers,
-- Laurens van Alphen Keen on dots
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