[horde] Problem creating and viewing non English folders via IMP

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Thu Oct 27 05:58:59 PDT 2005


Quoting lkolchin at univ.haifa.ac.il:

> When I create Imap folder in Hebrew lang. via Horde IMP it looks O.K. 
> in the Horde IMP interface and I can work with it.
> But when I use Outlook Express, this folder looks like gibberish.
> The same happens if I create Hebrew named folder in OE or 
> SquirrelMail, it looks like gibberish in Horde IMP interface.
>
> I'm using Cyrus-Imap server on this system and IMP is on another 
> server managed by another admin.
>
> I believe that Horde IMP just don't use modified version of the UTF−7 
> encoding (this is the standart) for creating and viewing folders.
> "See RFC2060 − section 5.1.3 − Mailbox International Naming Convention
>
> By convention, international mailbox names are specified
>
> using a modified version of the UTF−7 encoding."
>
>
> How to make Horde IMP use modified version of the UTF−7 encoding to 
> create and show non english folders?

Probably all you need to do is to update to a _vaguely_ recent version 
of IMP. But you didn't give us a single Horde or IMP version number, so 
I have no idea what the problem is.

-chuck

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