[Python-Dev] mUTF-7 support?

[Jesus Cea]

On 10/10/14 04:41, R. David Murray wrote:
> Specifically, it is about what we might better term mailbox
> *folders*...that is, not what you would normally think of as the
> 'mailbox name', which is usually understood to be the thing before the @
> in the email address (and can't contain non-ASCII yet...we need RFC 6855
> support for that, and I'm not sure *anybody* has that yet).
> 
> In this context it is the names you give to folders on the IMAP
> server...starting (usually) with INBOX and adding from there.  These
> names are used in IMAP commands (ex: the 'select' or 'create' commands),
> and IMAP uses mUTF-7 for those.

In IMAP4, mail folders are called "mailboxes". Yes, non universal
notation sucks.

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