Will the proposed solution solve the problem?
replace mailbox_name = mailbox.replace("[", "").replace("]", "").replace("/",
"_")
with
mailbox_name = re.sub('[^_\w]','',re.sub('[/ ]','_',mailbox))
On Sunday, 15 April 2012 18:40:29 UTC-5, Alan Etkin wrote:
>
> Not fixed yet in trunk. There is a regex replacement proposal in the issue
> page by Massimo.
>
> El sábado, 14 de abril de 2012 22:44:41 UTC-3, pyhead escribió:
>>
>>
>> Hi web2py users,
>>
>> db = DAL('imap://') successfully logs in to the mail server, but fails
>> when the commonly used spaces or '.' are returned in a folder name. Is
>> there any way to substitute not allowed characters for '_' so imap works?
>> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> only [0-9a-zA-Z_] allowed in table and
>> field names, received Gmail_All Mail
>>
>> This was reported and was flagged as accepted, so the fix should already
>> be in the nightly build, right?
>> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=644
>>
>> Please share the recipe if you are successfully using DAL with IMAP. I
>> am developing a web2py email client and this is crucial to its success.
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> El sábado, 14 de abril de 2012 22:44:41 UTC-3, pyhead escribió:
>>
>>
>> Hi web2py users,
>>
>> db = DAL('imap://') successfully logs in to the mail server, but fails
>> when the commonly used spaces or '.' are returned in a folder name. Is
>> there any way to substitute not allowed characters for '_' so imap works?
>> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> only [0-9a-zA-Z_] allowed in table and
>> field names, received Gmail_All Mail
>>
>> This was reported and was flagged as accepted, so the fix should already
>> be in the nightly build, right?
>> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=644
>>
>> Please share the recipe if you are successfully using DAL with IMAP. I
>> am developing a web2py email client and this is crucial to its success.
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> El sábado, 14 de abril de 2012 22:44:41 UTC-3, pyhead escribió:
>>
>>
>> Hi web2py users,
>>
>> db = DAL('imap://') successfully logs in to the mail server, but fails
>> when the commonly used spaces or '.' are returned in a folder name. Is
>> there any way to substitute not allowed characters for '_' so imap works?
>> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> only [0-9a-zA-Z_] allowed in table and
>> field names, received Gmail_All Mail
>>
>> This was reported and was flagged as accepted, so the fix should already
>> be in the nightly build, right?
>> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=644
>>
>> Please share the recipe if you are successfully using DAL with IMAP. I
>> am developing a web2py email client and this is crucial to its success.
>> Thank you!
>>
>
