[Dovecot] How to create UTF encoded folders?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 9.1.2010, at 13.18, Kārlis Repsons wrote:

> as I understand from post [1], system folders with UTF-8 chars in their names 
> will only be available for use with Dovecot2

No, they're not even in v2.0. I was thinking about it, but it became a bit too much work so I decided to leave it later.

> and I certainly look forward to 
> that, but somehow I was short of info about the current use of UTF characters 
> like ā, Ž etc. Should I just omit thinking about modified-UTF-7, avoid those 
> characters for the time being and then with Dovecot2 create UTF-8 encoded 
> folders with MUA and also on fs? Or there is something to know anyway? Please 
> suggest as it would be a pity not to create folders with utf symbols...

mUTF-7 is the way to do it now, and if in future Dovecot supports UTF-8 in filesystem there will be a way to move to it automatically.