Tickets :: Comment on [#10093] Cannot create folder name with ampersand

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Comment	>> Trying to create a folder through DIMP like "foo & bar" gives me the >> error message "the folder "foo bar" cannot be created". So these are >> actually two bugs. At one place the folder name isn't correctly >> encoded to be a valid IMAP mailbox name, and the ampersand gets lost >> when reporting back the error. > > We shouldn't allow creation of mailboxes with ampersands at all. > From RFC 3501: > > 5) Two characters, "#" and "&", have meanings by convention, and > should be avoided except when used in that convention. > > The problem is that ampersands are used to encode UTF7-IMAP. So you > wouldn't see them in an error message because we are trying to > convert them from UTF7-IMAP -> UTF-8. > > But we shouldn't even get to this point - we should simply reject > these mailbox names.
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