RE: A little help from my friends

[Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Williams [mailto:nwilliams@primeon.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:06 PM
> To: michel@digicool.com
> Cc: nnimap@extundo.com
> Subject: Re: A little help from my friends
> 
> 
> michel@digicool.com writes:
> 
> 
>         I have the same problem. From reading back in the list
> archives, it seems that nnimap punts mailboxes with spaces in the
> name, because gnus can't cope with spaces either. Since the whole
> reason that my company forced us all onto the Exchange system from a
> pop-based system was to have these shared folders, this is a real
> problem for me. I suspect it will be for others too, since the "Public
> Folders" shared area seems to be part of an out-of-the-box Exchange
> Server configuration.
> 

Hmm.  Every IMAP client I've used except gnus can handle this situation.
The RFC says that mailbox naming is 'implimentation specific', but I'm
pretty sure they meant the implimentation of the server, clients should
be as flexible as possible in handling mailbox names.  Simply 'punting'
on maibox names with spaces is pretty bad form, and the RFC does not say
that spaces should not be allowed.

I am not citizising nnimap, I think that Emacs should have an IMAP
client (and VM's IMAP support stinks) and gnus is doing it the right way
(not keeping all the state client side like VM does).

So the problem then is that gnus (and not nnimap) can't handle mailbox
names with spaces in them?  Argh.  Your renaming idea could work,
although it is, by design, uglier than it should be.  I don't know lisp
but dammit I'll learn it just to get this working.  I must have mail in
Emacs! ;)

-Michel