[Dovecot] German Umlauts in folder name and sieve

Jiri Bourek bourek at thinline.cz
Fri Dec 27 12:26:32 EET 2013


Christian Rößner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had created an imap folder that has German Umlauts in it:
>
> „RA Rößner - Merle“
>
> When finished, the result looks like this on filesystem:
>
> drwx------  3 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 27 11:02 RA Ro&AwgA3w-ner - Merle/
>
> I wrote this sieve script (with SOGo):
>
> if anyof (address :regex "from" "@.*\\.ra-roessner-merle\\.de") {
>      fileinto "RA Ro&AwgA3w-ner - Merle";
>      stop;
> }

You need to put the imap folder name (fileinto "RA Rößner - Merle";) 
instead of directory name into your sieve script. More info in documentaton:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Troubleshooting#Mailbox_Names_with_non-ASCII_Characters_Cause_Problems


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