[GTALUG] Fetchmail and Office365 and backslashes, oh my!

[Peter King]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:25:10AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
 
> Just for curiosity, can you try
>     "PERSONAL_EMAIL at utoronto.ca"\x5c"SHARED_MAILBOX at utoronto.ca"
> in you .fetchmailrc ?  The manpage is not clear whether you can use \xhh
> in quoted string (though highly likely).

Tried it, and in fetchmail it still passes the wrong number of backslashes.
As far as I can tell, fetchmail and O365 only exchange an even number of
backslashes: one gets you 0, two gets 2, three gets 2, four gets 4, and so
on.  I have no idea why this should be so, apart from the Universal Law of
Software Perversity.  Doesn't matter if I do straight characters, quoted or
escaped characters, decimal, octal, hexadecimal ...

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