MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Thu Feb 20 10:02:40 2014
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:52 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] MUTF7, UTF8, and Unicode flags
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On Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:53:21 PM CEST, Jan Kundr?t wrote:
> Seriously? This is going to break stuff. You might argue that 
> people creating mailboxes named "&U,BTFw-" are unlikely :), but 
> it's a valid string both in UTF-8 and in the modified UTF-7 
> encoding -- except that the two meanings are very different.

Actually, my thinking was (and is) that there's a fighting chance that 
before a new client being written today is ready for production use, UTF8 
might be all you need.

Mailboxes named &U,BTw- are not a major concern. An obvious problem, but 
hardly a pressing problem.

Arnt

