On 23.9.2013, at 16.52, mego...@inboxalias.com wrote:
>> I suspect your shell is breaking the 8bit chars into invalid UTF-8. I
>> just tried and it works fine with me.
>
> Sorry, we got confusion here... apparently my (lousy) freemail provider
> which I use to post on this mailinglist doesn't send some special
> characters etc. unaltered exactly as I typed - so I made a console
> screenshot of the doveadm rename problem to make things clear.
> Please have a look here, it will reveal the doveadm rename problem
> (and that my shell is working fine):
> http://i.imgur.com/08wKji4.png
If doveadm says it's invalid UTF-8, it's invalid UTF-8. I guess your terminal
isn't actually using UTF-8 then, but something else. ("locale" output should
say something about UTF-8.) I guess doveadm could also automatically translate
parameters to UTF-8, but that's a bit annoying to implement.
>
>>> To get things worse, when renaming the mailfolder in Thunderbird to
>>> "geschäftliches" it gets correctly written in the filesystem as
>>> "gesch&AOQ-ftliches"- but afterwards it's NOT found anymore in the
>>> dovecot index, e.g. when trying doveadm force-resync -u user it is
>>> not listed anymore (untilback-renaming in fs to the name it was
>>> indexed before).
>
>> Folders aren't indexed by default (mailbox_list_index=no) and
>> force-resync doesn't affect them. Are you saying
>> "doveadm mailbox list -u user" doesn't show some folder? I'm not
>> aware of any bugs related to this.
>
> No, the "doveadm mailbox list -u user" works just fine.
>
> BUT - I'm still wondering about the resync issue - As I understand the
> "doveadm force-resync -u user *" command rebuilds the index for the
> MAILS within the mailfolders? If so, how can the resync be done if the
> mailfolder itself is not found by doveadm anymore?
With mailbox_list_index=no there is no way a folder isn't found by doveadm.
>> I'd need to get some more specifics. Show show exists in filesystems
>> and what commands don't produce expected results (and what they
>> produce instead).
>
> For clearing up my point, I made another console screenshot with
> red markings to point out the problem (bug).
> Please have another look here:
> http://i.imgur.com/icPfys9.png
The problem here is that * is expanded by your shell, not doveadm. And it
expands into Tr&-AOQ-sh as it's in the filesystem, but that's only the mUTF-7
encoding of it. The UTF-8 version of the name is Tr&AOQ-sh. So doveadm only
sees that you attempted to resync a nonexistent mailbox. Using '*' with quotes
would work, since doveadm would do the expansion then.
