[Python-Dev] mUTF-7 support?

Charles Cazabon charlesc-lists-python-dev2 at pyropus.ca
Fri Oct 10 17:54:17 CEST 2014


Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
> On 10/10/14 02:43, Victor Stinner wrote:
> >>> What is the current behaviour of imaplib in Python 3.4 with non-ASCII
> >>> characters in mailbox names?
> >>
> >> It breaks. Crash & burn.
> > 
> > Oh ok. So in short, imaplib doesn't work on Python 3:
> 
> Actually, it doesn't work in Python 2 either. It never supported
> international mailbox names.

Correct.  I had to hack in mUTF-7 support in getmail to properly support
international IMAP users.

Charles
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