[New-bugs-announce] [issue5305] imaplib should support international mailbox names

[James Henstridge]

New submission from James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au>:

The IMAP4rev1 specification allows for non-ASCII mailbox names using a
modified UTF-7 encoding (section 5.1.3 of RFC 2060 or 3501).  However,
the imaplib routines taking a mailbox name just pass the string straight
through without any encoding.

It would be useful if Python provided an encoder/decoder for the
modified UTF-7 encoding, and optionally if imaplib would perform the
encoding and decoding at the appropriate points.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 82408
nosy: jamesh
severity: normal
status: open
title: imaplib should support international mailbox names
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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