On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Arnar Birgisson wrote: > Is there any setting in UW imapd that makes this conversion, i.e. when > Outlook requests an utf-7 encoded folder name, it looks in the > filesystem for the ISO-8859-1 encoding of the same name?
No, there isn't any support for ISO-8859-1 (or any other local character set) mailbox names, and there won't be. If/when 8-bit octets in mailbox names are supported in IMAP, they will be exclusively UTF-8. The entire purpose of using the modified UTF-7 convention in IMAP was to provide a transition, one in which all software can use and interoperate (because it is 7-bit). Supporting legacy character sets in mailbox names would be a major step backwards. In other words, my answer is that you should not use 8-bit octets in mailbox names at all during this transition period, and mutt should be fixed to know about the modified UTF-7 convention. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
