[Dovecot] is it posible to autocreate imap folders with non ascii chars?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Apr 5 16:29:41 EEST 2011


On 5.4.2011, at 15.31, Igor Zinovik wrote:

> autocreate = utf8_chars
> autosubscribe = utf8_chars
> ...
> 
> In logs i see that dovecot complains:
> Apr 05 16:21:43 imap(pavelkor): Debug: autocreate: Failed to create mailbox utf8_chars: Invalid mailbox name

With v2.1 you can directly UTF-8 characters there. With older versions you need to convert the mailbox names to mUTF-7. With v2.0 you can do this with doveadm:

doveadm mailbox mutf7 utf8_chars

Use the result as the mailbox name.



More information about the dovecot mailing list