[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox name STATUS response

[Timo Sirainen]

On 2.7.2012, at 14.06, Ewald Dieterich wrote:

> >> . CREATE "INBOX.Euro &IKw-"
> >> . OK Create completed.
> >> . LIST "" "INBOX.Euro &IKw-"
> >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Euro &IKw-"
> >> . STATUS "INBOX.Euro &IKw-" (MESSAGES)
> >> * STATUS {14}
> >> INBOX.Euro € (MESSAGES 0)
> >> . OK Status completed.
> >>
> >> Is this intended? My Perl script based on Mail::IMAPTalk doesn't like
> >> it and I wonder if there are other clients that don't cope with it.
> >
> > Most likely that mailbox exists like that in the filesystem. It
> > shouldn't. Dovecot hasn't allowed creating those for several years
> > now.
> 
> In the filesystem the mailbox is in mUTF-7:

Oh, sorry. I didn't even consider that it could have been broken for this long in v2.1.x without anyone noticing. Fixed:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/a698fccd37c3

Time for v2.1.8 soon I guess :)