Re: [Imap-protocol] UTF8=ACCEPT and modified utf-7 mailbox names

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:13:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday, June 30, 2014 10:23:39 PM CEST, Jamie Nicolson (倪志明) wrote:
> Suppose a server supports RFC 6855 (UTF8=ACCEPT) and the client 
> has ENABLEd it. Is it still permissible for the client to send 
> modified UTF-7 encoded mailbox names, or is the client then 
> required to use UTF-8 for mailbox names?

IMO, required to use UTF8...

> I'm wondering if the 
> server code should bother running mailbox names through the 
> UTF-7 decoder after UTF-8 mode has been enabled. If the server 
> is going to decode the mailbox names, then the client must 
> continue to escape '&' characters as "&-".

... because that escaping is not in 6855.

Arnt

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