Rafał Stożek added the comment: Yeah, basically. The flags with [] characters are added to gmail (in my case) by OtherInbox's Organizer app. I contacted them but haven't heard back yet.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:07 PM, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > Just to make sure I understand: the issue is that gmail may produce flags > with [] in them, and imaplib currently fails to process such flags when it > receives them from gmail? > > In principle I think we would not want to allow imaplib to be used to > create such flags unless the user specifies some sort of "I want to violate > the RFC" flag (which they might want to do, for example, to run tests > against gmail :) But currently it looks like it can? (I haven't looked at > this in enough detail to be sure.) If that's true we probably have to > continue to allow it for backward compatibility reasons, but we should > document the RFC violation and possible consequences (an IMAP server > rejecting such flags). > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue21815> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21815> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
