[Dovecot] Convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 20 15:41:51 EEST 2012


On 20.5.2012, at 12.33, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:

> The server I am running Dovecot on is still using locale = ISO-8859-1 but I am thinking it is time to convert to UTF-8... 
> Can I just use convmv to convert all the files in the mailboxes to UTF-8 or is there anything else I need to do?
> Do I need to run iconv to convert the content also or does dovecot/MUA fix this by it self? (i.e. they display the mail as encoded in ISO-8859-1)

Dovecot doesn't use locale. You shouldn't do anything to any Dovecot files.




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