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Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] IMAP
From: Ingo =?utf-8?q?Kl=C3=B6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: 2010-01-10 0:45:06
Message-ID: 201001100145.06893 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Saturday 09 January 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:42:21 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 January 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> > > So... Its reality!
> >
> > Now that's really weird. Can you capture the IMAP communication
> > between KMail/Thunderbird and the server, e.g. with wireshark? I'd
> > really be interested in seeing the difference.
>
> Emm... Well, that might be possible, but I have to use cleartext
> channels, not SSL ones, right?
Yes. If that's not possible without compromising security then maybe
it's possible to make dovecot log all of the IMAP communication. (?)
> > > Well, thanks for attention! I'm building a longterm mail
> > > solution, which stores all mail into YEAR/MONTH/ folders and
> > > sorts it further there by using maildrop... These folder creation
> > > and utf8 problems are the worst right now, also in time archive
> > > will grow again...
> >
> > Why do you run into utf8 problems with this? Do you want to use
> > month names as folder names? Or is the utf8 problem independent of
> > the archive?
>
> Well, this made me go through the problem again and I concluded some.
> Not counting the subfolders problem mentioned previously, I guess,
> the only remaining problem there could be that Dovecot still doesn't
> support UTF-8 on- disk directory format. Its planned to work for
> Dovecot2 [1]. Now for example I create "ĀēļšŪ" with KMail, but get
> "&AQABEwE8AWEBag-" on server.
Well, this does indeed look a bit like base64. I don't know utf-7, but
is an encoding for encoding Unicode characters as sequences of 7-bit
numbers.
> I want my system to be maximally
> universal and robust at its usability, so those UTF-8 directories
> are much waited on my side, but thats not about KMail in any direct
> way, right?
No. This issue appears to be a pure Dovecot issue.
Regards,
Ingo
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