[Dovecot] IMAP folders' codepages problem ?
Geert Hendrickx
ghen at telenet.be
Sat Nov 14 17:30:09 EET 2009
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 03:22:58PM +0100, michael at euroinfissi.eu wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I probably have a problem with the imap folders codepages. I use polish
> email clients such as MS Outlook and Windows Mail. The clients try to
> create folders
>
> like Wiadomości-Śmieci but Dovecot creates Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVs-mieci
No, this is exactly what the client passes to Dovecot. The IMAP standard
allows only plain ASCII in foldernames and therefor uses a modified UTF-7
encoding for non-ASCII characters. See section 5.1.3 of RFC 3501.
Geert
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