Re: spaces in folder names

[Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Well, yes. I only fear escaping will get us into more
> trouble. Suppose we replace " " with "_".
> 
> * How do nnimap know how to translate the gnus group name "a_b_c_d"
> to a mailbox name? Is it "a b c d", "a b c_d", "a b_c d" or...?

Yes, a more sophisticated heuristic is needed.  John mentioned the URL
encoding "%20" and I could live with that if it allowed me to access
an IMAP mailbox I otherwise couldn't.  :-)


> * There's no way to create a mailbox containing space
> 
> * There's no way to rename a mailbox to something containing space

For what it is worth, I don't think the last two are important.

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