[Dovecot] Horde IMP w/ dovecot folder list

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Dec 15 12:00:13 EET 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:47 +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using dovecot-1.1.7, Horde-3.3.2 and IMP-4.3.2.
> 
> The left-side folder list has some folders, whos names contains 
> localized (non-ascii) characters. This is displayed correctly when I 
> select the "English (American)" language entry on the login page from 
> the dropdown menu. But when I choose my locale, which is "Magyar" 
> (Hungarian), the folders won't display the correct characters. It's like 
> this:
> 
> With "English (American)" locale:
> Ügyfél
> 
> With "Magyar" locale:
> &ANw-gyf&AOk-l

Dovecot doesn't know what locale you've selected from IMP. If it works
with one and doesn't with other, it's clearly an IMP bug.

> The latter is the same displaying as with the folder's name on the 
> filesystem:
> # ls -1 user/Maildir/
> [...]
> .&ANw-gyf&AOk-l/

This is correct. IMAP uses modified UTF-7 character set for the mailbox
names.

> I've sent this message to imp@ but, they say it is a problem with my 
> mailserver,

I can't understand why they would do that. It's clearly an IMP bug.
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