On 3.7.2012, at 9.16, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

>> Most importantly fixes a pretty bad behavior of sending mailbox names as
>> UTF-8 instead of mUTF-7 as required by IMAP RFC. I'm surprised nobody
>> hadn't noticed this in v2.1.x tree before yesterday. I guess some
>> clients might have translated the name to UTF-8 anyway and not noticed
>> it, while others would have silently ignored the problem of not seeing
>> STATUS updates.
> 
> Now that wheezy has frozen, the ftpmasters are not at all likely to let in a 
> new version unless it fixes critical/security-related bugs.  None of these 
> issues seem crtical to me.


Using UTF8 in mailbox names is a rather serious mistake. I'd hate it if Debian 
distributed a Dovecot version for next several years with known broken IMAP 
behavior. It visibly breaks some IMAP clients and causes silent problems with 
others. The patches to fix these are pretty small:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/a698fccd37c3
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/880af3c78df9
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/90270c054e1f

The first one (STATUS) being the most important, the second two much less so.




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