I tried chinese in cyrus's folder name and chinese IMAP client, but something wrong

John Alton Tamplin jtampli at sph.emory.edu
Mon Mar 24 09:54:33 EST 2003


Temp wrote:

>I tried chinese in postfix+cyrus-imap
>and in Outlook Express 5, the "Inbox" is still 
>the one in chinese, but the "Sent Items" and 
>"Drafts" folders which I saw in english IMAP
>client become normal folders,
>and there are another folder instead of them
>in chinese in chinese name.
>
>so, does IMAP server not provide a uniform interface?
>or just the problem of IMAP protocol?
>or just my fault to set up something wrong??
>
>yes, the "Inbox" is good at all in chinese.
>  
>
Inbox is the only special folder in IMAP -- the others are just 
conventions used by the mail clients.  If two different clients 
(OE/English and OE/Chinese) decide to name them differently, there is 
nothing the IMAP server can or should do about it.

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
Emory University, School of Public Health     +1 404/727-9931







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