On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 01:19 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
That is pretty much standard IMAP mUTF-7. Wonder why that's not mentioned in there. But yeah, looks like it also suggests encoding the '.' and '/' using the mUTF-7 format. That is forbidden by IMAP. So having such names in the maildir and serving them to IMAP clients would actually violate the IMAP protocol. I see... so what's the best / most standards compliant way of enabling all possible folder names now? Using that plugin?
I mean I do not quite understand what happens when I use the plugin... so as far as I understood you know IMAP itself already has an encoding way... i.e. the client already sends mUTF-7 encoded foldernames to dovecot, and dovecot simply passes this through and creates these as file names, right?
When I use the list encode plugin... will it then \NN encode the (possibly already mUTF-7 encoded) string... to also allow things like "." and "/"? So the client will never see any \NN encoding as this is done purely dovecot internally?
Thanks, Chris.