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authorNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2011-07-05 23:11:11 +0200
committerNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2011-07-05 23:45:34 +0200
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Manpage & changelog: document support for international IMAP mailbox names
-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG1
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index b3f8f72..6d57bf7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ version 0.?.? - UNRELEASED
* Fix test suite failures with Python 2.7 by letting the test suite method
FixedGzipFile.seek() return the new absolute file position.
Closes: #3314293.
+ * IMAP: support international mailbox names containing non-ASCII characters.
version 0.8.2 - 16 October 2010
diff --git a/archivemail.xml b/archivemail.xml
index a0448a5..3a3126e 100644
--- a/archivemail.xml
+++ b/archivemail.xml
@@ -503,6 +503,15 @@ Note that quoting only a substring will not work, and be aware that your shell
will probably remove unprotected quotes or backslashes.
</para>
<para>
+Similarly, there is no need to percent-encode non-<acronym>ascii</acronym>
+characters in <acronym>IMAP</acronym> mailbox names.
+As long as your locale is configured properly, <command>archivemail</command>
+should handle these without problems.
+Note, however, that due to limitations of the <acronym>IMAP</acronym>
+protocol, non-<acronym>ascii</acronym> characters do not mix well with
+wildcards in mailbox names.
+</para>
+<para>
<command>archivemail</command> tries to be smart when handling mailbox paths.
In particular, it will automatically add an <acronym>IMAP</acronym> <literal>NAMESPACE</literal>
prefix to the mailbox path if necessary; and if you are archiving a subfolder,