Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-sieve-variables-04.txt

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

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> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:28:45AM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> >
> > Modifier ":quoteregex"
> >
> >         Every character with special meaning for :regex (".", "*", "?"
> >         etc.) is prefixed with "\" in the expansion.  This modifier is
> >         only available when the "regex" extension is in effect.

> Do we want to more specifically say something like "Ensures that "
> [ ...every character with special meaning is prefixed with "\" ... ],
> i.e. if a character is already quoted, we don't want another quote
> character to be added

Absolutely not. We want all characters quoted, including quoting
characters. If you don't do this a literal sequence like "\*" ends
up matching a "*", not "\*" as it should. We want "\*" to become
"\\\*" so it matches "\*".

> (otherwise the quoted character would become
> unquoted, a literal quote character would be added, etc).

That's not what happens. See above.

				Ned