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  • Seek list of special characters for Eudora mailbox names

    From liz@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 5 23:12:35 2020
    Is there a complete list of special characters that can be used for
    Eudora mailbox names?

    I notice some common special characters, such as ampersand ("&") can
    not be used. Which ones can?

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 6 12:03:11 2020
    On Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:12:35 GMT, liz <not@home.com> declaimed the
    following:

    Is there a complete list of special characters that can be used for
    Eudora mailbox names?

    I notice some common special characters, such as ampersand ("&") can
    not be used. Which ones can?

    Since "mailbox names" map 1:1 to Windows file system path names, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file is applicable. Not sure why it objects to "&" -- possibly a restriction for
    IMAP mailboxes as those map to boxes on the server itself, or it was meant
    as some sort of escape character.


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