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- RFC-1176 clearly states (in the command summary) that the "* MAILBOX"
- and "* BBOARD" commands have a single "string" argument. In IMSP,
- we've taken advantage of this fact by adding more fields (such as
- server location(s)) to this unsolicited reply -- the goal being to
- allow the IMAP and IMSP client code to share as much parsing as
- possible.
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- Rather than making the protocol definition less consistant and
- RFC-1176 invalid, it would be better to state that having certain
- characters in mailbox/bboard names (e.g. double-quotes and spaces) are
- likely to break older clients that don't conform to the spec.
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- Flags and keywords already are defined to be ATOMs in the BNF, so
- there's no ambiguity there.
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- - Chris
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