Hi, Sorry but Cyrus 2.4 does not seem to conform to RFC 5256 as stated in doc/spec.html
Here is an excerpt from RFC5256 (Chapter 7.Internationalization Considerations) As stated in the introduction, the rules of I18NLEVEL=1 as described in [IMAP-I18N] MUST be followed; that is, the SORT and THREAD extensions MUST collate strings according to the i;unicode-casemap collation Here is an excerpt from draft-ietf-imapext-sort-19 which indeed is the actual implementation in Cyrus. If the server does not support the [IMAP-I18N] COMPARATOR extension, the collation algorithm used is the "en;ascii-casemap" collation described in [COMPARATOR]. This "slight" change was introduced [sic] in draft-ietf-imapext-sort-20 and discussed here http://www.imc.org/ietf-imapext/mail-archive/msg04187.html Actually in Cyrus 2.4 cache items are stored in ascii. RFC 5256 require them to be UTF-8 to be sorted as required. That probably implies in Cyrus code : - store cache items in UTF-8 - increment CACHE_VERSION - check everything that will be broken by UTF-8 (actual sort code probably is) Olivier ROLAND ATOS Origin.