[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Nov 10 04:11:23 EET 2009


Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in
filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default
would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or
something to mail_location could enable UTF-8.

Any thoughts? Could this be dangerous somehow? UTF-8 enables a lot of
weird characters, perhaps no one really wants to see them on filesystem
since there's no way to type the characters? But for small systems this
probably isn't a problem.

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