accents in mailbox names

[Paul Wagland]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:20:50 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot 
<ajacoutot at lphp.org> wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.2.3 under OpenBSD-3.5.
> My users are all French and i'm having a problem creating mailboxes with
> accentuated caracters.
> ie:
>
> cm user.testuser.testé
> createmailbox: Invalid mailbox name
>
> How can I make cyrus accept accentuated mailbox names ?

By convention names are stored in LDAP in a modified UTF-7 format, see section
5.1.3 of RFC 2060.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7

I leave it as an excercise for the reader to create that name ;-)

Hope this helps some,
Paul
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