From 88653766db7b8da28080bae2704d1b0f574a2cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolaus Schulz Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:11:11 +0200 Subject: Manpage & changelog: document support for international IMAP mailbox names --- CHANGELOG | 1 + archivemail.xml | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) 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. +Similarly, there is no need to percent-encode non-ascii +characters in IMAP mailbox names. +As long as your locale is configured properly, archivemail +should handle these without problems. +Note, however, that due to limitations of the IMAP +protocol, non-ascii characters do not mix well with +wildcards in mailbox names. + + archivemail tries to be smart when handling mailbox paths. In particular, it will automatically add an IMAP NAMESPACE prefix to the mailbox path if necessary; and if you are archiving a subfolder, -- cgit v1.2.3