MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no Thu Feb 20 10:02:40 2014 To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu From: Arnt Gulbrandsen Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:52 2018 Subject: [Imap-protocol] MUTF7, UTF8, and Unicode flags In-Reply-To: References: <57f94285-8e26-4eb1-9556-826fde4edd89@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Message-ID: 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