Re: Invalid characters for folder name

Sebastian Hagedorn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 25 Feb 2021, at 18:33, David Luong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that folder name such as "test;test" cannot be created but "test:test" is allowed. Is there a configuration option to enable the ';' character?  Using percent encoding also doesn't work as '%' is not allowed.

there is no configuration option. The allowed characters are hard-coded. You’d have to change the source code and re-compile. The definition is in mboxname.c and looks like this:

#define GOODCHARS " #$'+,-.0123456789:=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~"
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