[Dovecot] Dovecot and "deliver" disagree on character encodings

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 01:53 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> I originally created the mail folders with Kmail, and Dovecot created the 
> directories with their names encoded in modified UTF-7, like in IMAP. The 
> Sieve script is encoded in UTF-8, in accordance with RFC 3028. When the Sieve 
> script specifies a mail folder with non-English letters in the name, the LDA 
> doesn't put the messages in the corresponding modified-UTF-7-encoded 
> directory. Instead it creates a new directory with the same name but encoded 
> in UTF-8. That directory doesn't show up as a mail folder in Kmail, 
> presumably because Dovecot considers the UTF-8-encoded name invalid.

Dovecot isn't working right here, but since there's currently no
UTF8->mUTF7 conversion code in Dovecot it's not too simple to fix this.
I added it to my TODO.

> The Dovecot I got with Debian isn't exactly the most recent version. I 
> searched for "Maildir", "deliver" and "Sieve" in the changelog, and didn't 
> find anything about this. Should I consider upgrading anyway, abandoning the 
> Debian package?
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> Debian Etch (4.0)
> Dovecot 1.0.rc15

You could (and probably should) get a newer version from backports.org.

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