Umm... Actually we ran into this about 5 years ago with the Exchange server. The simple answer is "lump it". The Exchange server filters all folders with the hierarchy separator character in them. Our users were a bit surprised when they discovered this but they learned to cope. It's not pleasant for those stores that allow hierarchy characters in the mailbox, but this is fundimentally a limitation of the protocol.
The U+2215 option IS viable, however you will run into other clients that cannot cope with receiving the unicode characters and choke on them (clients on non unicode-enabled Operating systems like Win9x come to mind immediately). That's why we decided not to go down that route for the Exchange server, ymmv Larry Osterman -----Original Message----- From: Grant Baillie [mailto:gbaillie@;apple.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mailbox names containing hierarchy separator Sometimes, users will want to create mailboxes whose names contain the hierarchy separator. A common case is to have dates in the name (say, "Work - 11/02") when the server's separator is "/". They are, not unnaturally, surprised at the results, since they expected to get a single mailbox, not two levels of hierarchy. (Presumably, this isn't so big deal for clients which present the output of LIST more or less directly, but most clients don't do that because it doesn't scale very well). A couple of ideas for dealing with that I can think of are: 1) For "/", use a Unicode character like U+2215, which will display approximately the way the user expects. I think there's a similar unichar for "." and maybe even "\". 2) Modified UTF-7 encode the separator to get the mailbox name. I think this is illegal according to Section 5.1.3 (Mailbox International Naming Convention) of the spec, though. Any comments/suggestions would be welcome --Grant ------------------------------------- Grant Baillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac OS X Mail, Apple Computerm, Inc ------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/imap-list.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/imap-list.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
