lefcha/imapfilter — Issue #25: @ character in mailbox names no longer work
Author: oranisagu
Created: 2012-01-06 22:11:07+00:00
State: open

Hi there

After the upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4.1 my mailboxes with @ chars in their names no longer work as expected. each @ char is converted by imapfilter to \&AEA- whereas before, the @ char has been used without any encoding/change.

I assumed this to be the new, desired behaviour and tried it out, but most of my email clients seem to have issues with this form of encoding. only thunderbird under linux, which I use most often, still works, but TB under windows & squirrel webmail seem to have problems as they parse the character correctly but then send the server requests with the 'intact' @ sign, which results in a 'mailbox not found' error.

is there any way to force imapfilter to use the @ sign as it did in 2.3? I've tried using options.charset with UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, without any difference.

Any help is very much appreciated as I really love this tool and would be lost in a flood of mails without its sorting capabilities.