[Imap-protocol] Re: [Alpine-alpha] Gmail + Alpine + IMAP keywords

[Mark Crispin]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Philip Guenther wrote:

> The characters in atom-specials can't be included directly in flag names and 

> they can't be encoded in modified-UTF-7, so simply saying "flag names should 

> be interpreted as being in modified-UTF-7" would not be sufficient to let 

> gmail represent all possible label names.


Since we are defining as-yet non-existant new semantics for keywords, we 
can do with them as we please.

The rules of MUTF7 are basically restrictions for MUTF7 in mailbox names 
which are astrings.  We could remove those restrictions for MUTF7 flags.

Granted, this is a mess; but it's a message to not break old clients while 
we move forward to UTF-8.

IMHO, UTF-8 flags should probably be astrings.  Since clients will have to 
be updated anyway to use them, this wouldn't break anything.

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.