[Dovecot] Deleting a folder with & character

A.L.E.C alec at alec.pl
Wed Sep 19 20:10:16 EEST 2012


On 09/19/2012 02:42 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> mUTF7 uses the & character for encoding non-ASCII data. The & character is encoded in mUTF7 as "&-". Dovecot nowadays uses UTF8 internally for all mailbox names, and it's simply not possible to create from UTF8 string a valid mUTF7 string that contains & alone.

I'm confused. I have no problems with creating and using a folder with
utf8 name containing '&' character. So, what problem do you describe?
doveadm is working with utf8 right? So, why it can't delete such folder.

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