[Kde-pim] Checking for valid folder names in Akonadi

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi, 

when creating a folder in Akonadi, we currently don't check if the name is 
valid. This can cause Bad Things, the user can use '/' in the middle or '.' at 
the start, which will confuse the IMAP and the maildir resource.

So in slotCreateCollection() of the standard action manager we should check 
this and show a nice error dialog if the folder name is invalid. Same when 
changing the folder name with the folder properties dialog. The question is: 
How? A valid file name is resource-specific, especially in the IMAP case, the 
folder seperator can apparently be server-specific, KMail 1 had methods like 
delimiterForFolder() for this.

Should we just ignore all that and simply disallow dots at the start and 
slashes? Or should we come up with some sort of D-Bus interface? That seems a 
bit overkill (especially since the client methods need to be async) to me, but 
would be the only way to do it properly.

Any opinions?

(Background: I'm trying to merge r1131250, but as usual, that turns out to be 
 a bit more complicated)

Regards,
Thomas
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