[Dovecot] RFC 6154: German umlauts in special_use folder names

Daniel Parthey daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Sep 13 22:23:08 EEST 2012


Robert Schetterer wrote:
> > the Drafts special folder is called "Entwürfe" in German locale.
> > How should the special_use entry in the config file look like?
> > 
> > Would you recommended to use the encoded folder name...
> > 
> > mailbox "Entw&APw-rfe" {
> >   special_use = \Drafts
> > }
> > 
> > ...or rather the utf-8 Encoding in the dovecot config file?
> > 
> > mailbox "Entwürfe" {
> >   special_use = \Drafts
> > }
> 
> which german client does mailbox "Entw&APw-rfe" and is able to use special_use?
>
> i ve tested k9 mail 4.2 german, no need for translate
> \Drafts is auto noticed then it does \Drafts ( Entwürfe ) in the gui, i
> think this or equal should be the right way
> for all clients

I'm not sure which client created it and if any of my clients
does support special_use, but I found the following mailbox on
our mdbox filesystem:

# ls -ld mail/mailboxes/Entw\&APw-rfe
drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-05-22 19:58 mail/mailboxes/Entw&APw-rfe

Seems like k9mail or Android Mail must have created it in May 2012,
the folder is not subscribed and contains only a single mail. The
rest is in "Drafts" mailbox (where it belongs).

Regards
Daniel
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