[Dovecot] mail_log plugin logs UTF-8 mailbox name

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jul 11 20:11:26 EEST 2012


On 11.7.2012, at 15.42, Ewald Dieterich wrote:

> A small bug in the mail_log plugin:
> 
> When I copy a mail from the inbox to a mailbox with special characters,
> the mailbox name is logged in UTF-8:
> 
> [...] copy from INBOX: box=INBOX.Euro €, [...]

I think the UTF8 name is more correct here

> I guess the name should be in mUTF-7, like it is done when I copy the
> other way round:
> 
> [...] copy from Euro &IKw-: box=INBOX, [...]

and I should change this instead.

Just because IMAP protocol uses mUTF7 doesn't mean that it should be visible anywhere else. (You can already use UTF8 for mailbox names on the filesystem.)




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