Toschi Pietro wrote, at 02/05/2008 06:57 AM: > Apparently, cyrus-imapd does not support mailboxes with some letters > inside the name. “&” is one of that. I have some mailboxes containing > that symbol to be migrated from another server (SUN) but I always get an > error. > > Looking at the IMAP RFC it seems very complex to me to understand what > characters are supported and how by the protocol. I wander if there is a > way to make cyrus accept such mailboxes, for example using some sort of > escape sequences, encoding rules or so. > > Do someone have a solution to this annoying problem? In Thunderbird, I can create a new folder named: this&that This results in a directory on the server named: this&-that What tool are you using to migrate your mailboxes? Hopefully, something like imapsync will take care of these details for you. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
