[Dovecot] can't rename folder whiten with non ASCI charters

Nikolay Shopik shopik at inblock.ru
Sat Nov 17 19:55:18 EET 2007


On 17.11.2007 20:05, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 17.11.2007, at 18.37, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>
>> Running dovecot 1.0.5 on Debian testing.
>> I've just tried to create folder using Russian charters after that 
>> I'm tried to renamed it without luck. Folder removed and no new 
>> created and I still subscribed to old folder even its not exist anymore.
>
> Sounds like a client problem/bug. Dovecot doesn't actually care what 
> characters are in your mailboxes, but they should be in IMAP's 
> modified UTF-7 format which looks like plain ASCII to Dovecot. Also 
> Dovecot isn't supposed to change subscriptions when a RENAME is done, 
> that's client's job.
>
I'm figure out problem was in settings in Thunderbird. 
Tools->Options->Display->Formating->Fonts->Incoming Mail-> Here should 
be correct encoding set, other than ISO-8859-1 is enough which is 
default if you are using English client instead of localized.


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